通过文献考证并运用科技史方法,对西方传教士在中国境内创办的第一份中文期刊《东西洋考每月统记传》的科学技术传播内容和特色进行论证,纠正了过去有关潜水器具报道、有关建议中国创设农会、有关中国第一个西医医院等错误论断,使鸦片战争前夕经由期刊传入西方科技知识的原委得以澄清。 Through literature research and application of the history of science and technology, this paper demonstrates the contents and characteristics of science and technology dissemination of the first Chinese journal “Western Monthly Monthly Biography of Eastern Western Culture” founded by Western missionaries in China, and rectifies the previous reports on diving equipment , The suggestion on the establishment of peasant associations in China and the incorrect conclusion about the first Western medicine hospital in China was clarified on the whole of the introduction of western science and technology knowledge by journals on the eve of the Opium War.