| It is well known that the development and updating of the thought is necessary to the advancement of a society, but fewer knows how the speeding of thought made media adapt to its need and how medium promotes the freedom and perfection of thought, the couple relation hidden deeply in the appearance of communication, touched by fewer. Here is a treatise on Enlightemnent of Last Qing dynasty and modernization of periodicals, trying connect the two phenomena and study it to find further relationship between the two things in a short history period, hoping some edification from it. In the Last Qing dynasty, the national crisis created the demand of æ…nlightenment? limited by the history condition, the Enlighters had to make use of periodicals as a major tool of Enlightenment. When they enlighten the ordinary people by the periodicals, they must considered the intellectual factors of the populace, thus created the reformation of news thought and news concept, it also promoted the change of the type of periodicals, when the Enlighters propagated new idea by the new medium, the periodicals gave big impetus and space to the speeding of thought and change of the populace抯 thought, and accelerated the new thought concept developed in depth and width, the periodicals acted as a multiplicator in this way .In the Last Qing dynasty ,the reciprocal influence and promotion of periodicals and Enlightenment discovered the reciprocal relationship of thought propaganda and media development. Figuring out this relationship has reality sense to today抯 Enlightenment. Following this idea, the treatise has four parts. Partl---The call of Enlightenment. Discusses the updating of conception of Enlighters to papers and the public reading people, called for change of the type of the papers. In this period, the studying and using for reference of Chinese and foreign papers of the Enlighters made a concept shift from authoritative machinery iii K# ~4_ MASTERS THESIS to supervisory machinery on government and speech., which coincided with the world advanced new concept. The Enhighters?thought dosed to the populace with the society, these two sides questioned on how to change type and face the ordinary people. Part2?The response of the media. Analyses some characters of periodicals during type-changing to modem. The Enlighters in order to 憆efresh the hearing and seeing?抴iden the hearing and seeing? æ…¼igh the spirit? they set a series of revolution on getting information, using language and the method of propagation, made the periodicals closed to the modem reform. Part3---Amplify of the effect. Discourses the promotion of the periodicals after type-changing to the Enlightenment. The periodicals, One hand, deepen the Enlightenment, on the other hand, it changes the people抯 thought through information and communication, meanwhile it also integrated and disintegrated various powers in the society to achieved the final goal---enforce the revolutionary forces. Part4---The thinking of the history. Retrospect the reciprocal relationship and the edification to the people. With the development of mass media, the Enlightenment of thought paid more focus on its characters of potential, disintegrated and technology, the Enlighters must changed their status and role to made the two parts promote each other a... |