The Research Of The Impact From The Child's Paper To The Changing Of The Concept Of Children In The Late Qing Period (1875-1881)

The Child's Paper was run by Fernham who is a American missionary in the late Qing period. Because of the extraordinary background, the newspaper is unique in the development of the history of Chinese newspaper-that is ,it is the first newspaper for children. And what is more important, it establish a new image of child in china which acted as great enlightenment for the reformer in the late Qing period. After this newspaper, Chinese people changed the attitude towards the children, and began to link the children to the destiny of China.In the last 20 years in china, the Chinese scholars and the missionaries from Europe and America discourse the children in many different ways. No matter it was the new image in the newspaper, or the character in the child literature, or the character in the science fiction, the children's new image was intensified. And the Child's Paper played a very important role in the process to establish and fix the new image. Because it brought a brand new concept of children into China.When we talk about the significance of the Child's paper for the intellectual history of the late Qing, we need to consider the political and historical background and the development of the missionary publications. Just like all the other missionary publications, the science acted as a prominence in The Child's Paper. Because science is the only thing which can be totally accept by Chinese paper. The missionaries played an important role in introducing the western cultures, theories and science and technology to china. At the same time, they also destroyed the old system in china.Under such a context, The Child's Paper gained a great popularity and acknowledge in the Chinese society and it lasted more than 40 years. The newspaper was very attractive not only because of that it was full of vivid picture, but also because of the content.