Fu Xiang’s Journey To The West,Media Interaction And Text Evolution: Research On "Li Hong-Chang’s Records Of Hiring Europe And The United States"

In 1896,Li Hongchang was employed successively in Europe and the United States,and became the subject of foreign media’s eager coverage.Lin Lezhi,then editor-in-chief of Wan Guo Gong Pao and the editor-in-chief Cai Erkang cooperated to translate and extract reports from western newsprint,and published them on Wan Guo Gong Pao.Book.In 1982,after Zhong Shuhe re-edited it,it was renamed Li Hongchang’s History of Hiring Europe and the United States,and it was included in the Towards the World Series series of bibliographies.From English reports to Chinese reports,from newsprint to books,from modern times to modern times,the writing process of Li Hongchang’s History of Employment in Europe and the United States is not only a complete media activity,but also embodies the interactive logic of old and new media in all aspects of its writing.After combining various political factors,Lin Lezhi selectively translated the reports on the western newsprint,and after re-editing by Cai Erkang,they were published in the newspaper in a style suitable for Chinese people to read.In the process of writing H.E.Li’s History of Hiring Europe and the United States,the two added a large number of details to the book,showing the world a complete picture of H.E.Li’s Journey to the West;at the same time,the two used the media logic of newsprint to complete the book.The expression of one’s own position;H.E.Li’s History of Hiring Europe and the United States also rarely adds several portraits and landscape photos of Li Hongchang himself and the leaders of the countries he went to.The use of modern media technology ensures the text authoritative.At the same time,this study also analyzed Li Hongchang’s diary of another mission,Jiexiang Zhuangyou Rilu circulated on the market,and found that most of its contents were excerpted from the reports on the Wan Guo Gong Pao;Li Hongchang’s History of Employment in Europe and the United States combined the above two texts,and finally formed the modern version of Li Hongchang’s History of Hiring Europe and the United States.In the process of compiling "Records of Europe and the United States",Lin and Cai used the function of late Qing newsprint to convey new knowledge of Western learning,transformed news into historical events,and completed the transformation from newsprint to book media,reflecting the interaction between the late Qing Dynasty and the old media.At the same time,in order to maintain Li Hong-chang’s increasingly declining image after the First Sino-Japanese War,Lin and Cai showed a lot of the excellent treatment he received in foreign countries in the text.Although they did not have a profound social impact at the time,they did Its rich content and comprehensive details enable later generations of scholars to have a more objective evaluation of Li Hong-chang himself and his travels in Europe and America.