| The North-China Daily News is a Western newspaper operated and published by the Westerners in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.It is also the longest and largest foreign language newspaper in China.It is also a foreign newspaper with the longest circulation and the largest circulation in China.The reports in The North-China Daily News are rich in content and diverse in types,which is one of the important materials to study the social development of China in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.Starting with The North-China Daily News,this study focuses on the news reports related to traditional Chinese medicine in newspapers,combined with the social background and medical development at that time,explores the attitude of westerners and western media and other elite strata to Chinese traditional culture during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China,and understands the characteristics and shortcomings of traditional Chinese medicine in the eyes of the elite strata with western background at that time,as well as the communication and competition between traditional Chinese and western medicine at that time.It enriches the research on the related contents of the word The North-China Daily News and fills up the blank in the field of the combination of traditional Chinese Medicine and the word The North-China Daily News. |