“现在中国……比前几年好,风气开了……也修铁路。人常说中国是穷地方,究其实不穷……我们盼望的是中国一年兴旺的一年。”90余年前,一个英国浸信会传教士在教外国人学汉语的《官话初阶》一书中,用尚不流畅的白话文如此描述清王朝覆亡后的中国。数年前,他刚刚创办了近代中国最早的博物馆之一——济南广智院。 “Now China ... better than in previous years, the atmosphere opened ... also repair the railway. People often say that China is a poor place, in fact, not poor ... ... We are looking forward to China’s year of prosperity.” 90 Some years ago, when a British Baptist missionary taught foreigners to learn Chinese as a first-language official book, they described the post-Qing China as a non-fluent vernacular Chinese language. A few years ago, he just founded Jinan Guangzhi Hospital, one of the earliest museums in modern China.