摘要

从1757年到1842年签订《南京条约》的一口通商时间，广州为清王朝对外交流的唯一口岸。西方人认识广州就是认识中国。《中国丛报》是19世纪上半叶美国传教士裨治文在华创办、旨在介绍中国的对外重要报纸。其中由本人创作的《广州介绍》详细介绍了广州城的历史与现状，展示了传教士在十九世纪中期对广州城认识、态度的变化，反映了以传教士为代表的西方希望打开中国市场、传播宗教思想继而改变中国现状的迫切愿望。

Abstract

From 1757 to the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, during the period of the single-port trade system, Guangzhou was the only port through which the Qing dynasty conducted foreign exchanges. For Westerners, to understand Guangzhou was to understand China. The Chinese Repository was an important foreign-oriented newspaper founded in China in the first half of the nineteenth century by the American missionary Elijah Coleman Bridgman, with the aim of introducing China. Among its contents, the "Description of city of Canton" written by Bridgman himself gave a detailed account of the history and contemporary condition of the city of Guangzhou, displayed the changes in missionaries' understanding of and attitudes toward the city of Guangzhou in the mid-nineteenth century, and reflected the urgent desire of the West, as represented by missionaries, to open the Chinese market, spread religious ideas, and thereby change China's existing condition.

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