초록 열기/닫기 버튼
The concept of the “Silk Road” was first put forward by a German geographer Richthofen in 1877. This word has experienced complex processes of communication from academics to societies, from professional terms to established cultural concepts. On the basis of combing the reports on the Silk Road in the newspapers and periodicals during the period of the Republic of China, and by analyzing the texts, this paper restores the process of people’s acceptance and cognition of the Silk Road in that period.¡ The acceptance and use of the “Silk Road” in Chinese academic circles is not a process of information dissemination, but a process of adopting the nominal name and superficial definition of “Silk Road” in China. As an academic concept, the Chinese academic circles had not yet fully applied it in the first half of the twentieth century, let alone the Chinese people’s full understanding the narration of the Western "Silk Road" and its affiliated historical contexts. Before the emergence of the Chinese term “絲綢之路”(Silk Road) in 1942, with the deepen in go facademicre search and public reports in the media, the public started to have preliminary understanding of the Silk Road. However, it was only a vague concept, and the geographical routes and locations it referred to was not specific. This road was regarded not only as a trade route, but also as an important channel for the exchange of religious civilizations between the East and the West, and its connotation and types were very extensive. It was only since 1940s that the concept of “絲綢之路” became widely known to Chinese public.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
the Silk Road, the Republican Era, newspapers, magazines, Chinese cognition, evolution
