19世纪后期,电报的发展深嵌在殖民主义背景之中,也折射了西方构建的殖民体系。电报在全球发展不仅反映了东西方之间的信息传输者和接收者之间的不平等关系,而且电报技术在服务于西方殖民事业的同时刺激了西方殖民主义者征服世界的野心。因此,电报在殖民传播中既体现亦构建了西方霸权体系。 In the late 19th century, the development of the telegraph was deeply embedded in the colonial background and also reflected the colonial system built by the West. The global development of telegraph not only reflects the unequal relationship between the East and the West between the transmitter and the receiver, but telegram technology also stimulates the colonialists’ ambitions to conquer the world while serving the Western colonial cause. Therefore, in the colonial spread, the telegraph not only embodies and constructs the western hegemony system.