年鉴发源于欧洲。我国《宋史·艺文志》(刘玄)著录有《年鉴》一卷,可能是名称偶同,决非今日之年鉴。近代工业革命导致印刷技术获得长足的发展,因而年鉴也就如同报纸、刊物一样,在欧洲资本主义社会得到广泛的刊行,其规模和速度是相当惊人的。无论是上层建筑各个部门,还是经济基础各个方面,都利用年鉴这种形式为自己服务。换句话说,它在短时期内即已涉足人类社会的所有领域。显然,年鉴这种旺盛的生命力是与它自身具备 Yearbook originated in Europe. China’s “History of Song Yi” (Liu Xuan) recorded “Yearbook” a volume, may be the name of the same, not today’s yearbook. The modern industrial revolution led to the rapid development of printing technology. As a result, the yearbook, like newspapers and periodicals, was widely published in European capitalist society and its scale and speed were quite alarming. Whether in the various branches of the superstructure, or in all aspects of the economic base, we use the form of the Yearbook to serve ourselves. In other words, it has been involved in all fields of human society in a short period of time. Obviously, this strong vitality of Yearbook is with its own