从《中国教会新报》到《万国公报》，近代宗教报刊在中国社会地位之转变，学界 一般多注意其办刊宗旨变化下的内容重构与读者群体的下沉，似乎这一过程是来自新世 界西式报刊之“新知”，在落地 “旧世界”大清国时的“自然发生”。实际上，“新 知”要导入“旧世界”，原有的交通与物流系统默默承担了重要工作。本文通过对《中 国教会新报》发行网络的考察，发现早期《中国教会新报》受限于宗教传播网络的发行 局限，其覆盖仅止于上海周边以及部分口岸地区，但随着其借助中国近代化交通和物流 体系，报刊发行覆盖也逐渐扩大并渗透到中国社会深层结构中，后进入晚清士人的“阅 读世界”，《中国教会新报》也在与社会各方的互构之中完成转型，成为日后对中国近 代化影响深远的综合报刊：《万国公报》。

 In the transformation of the status of modern religious newspapers in China, scholars generally pay more attention to the content reconstruction and the sinking of readers under the change of their publishing purposes. It seems that it is a natural process for Western newspapers to be embedded in Chinese society. But actually, the original Chinese transportation system has undertaken the important work. Since limited by location and distribution mode, the distribution coverage of The News of Church in the early period could only publish in the surrounding areas of Shanghai and some port areas. As the modern transportation system gradually embedded the social structure of China, it began to expand. In 1872, The News of Church began to enter the “reading world” of the scholars in the late Qing Dynasty. The News of Church also gradually transformed into a comprehensive newspaper(The Globe Magazine ) with its deep influence on the modernization of China in the future.