监狱改良是中国法制近代化的重要内容，近代监狱改良进程中，中国与西方通过各种 媒介关联与互联。早期出使官员的考察日记和电报日记将西监模范带到中国，为中国监狱 改良建构了西方经验的档案库。中国模范监狱的司法实践与官报体系对中监模范的推广形 成了中央-地方的结构性耦合，官报成为中监模范的“竞争舞台”。模范监狱作为建筑媒 介，以营造和观瞻的方式将中国纳入到视觉治理的世界体系。全球史视野中模范监狱的生 成与扩散丰富了近代媒介“互联”中国与世界的内涵，互联既意味着多种媒介杂交形成的 信息流动、价值传递、权力扩张的张力，也意味着媒介生产方式所形成的动力机制在世界 差序格局中的能动性。

 Prison reform is an integral part of the modernization of China’s legal system. In the process of prison reform, China and the West are connected and interacted through various media. The investigative diary and telegraphic diary from ambassadors and envoys of Late Qing brought the western prison model to China, and constructed the archives of western experience for the reform of Chinese prisons. The judicial practice of China prison reform and the present and spread of China model prisons by official newspapers have formed structural coupling in form of centrallocal system, and thus the official newspaper has become “competitive stage” for China model prisons. As a kind of architecture medium, model prison brings China into the world system of visual governance in way of space construction and visual observation. In the view of global history, the formation and diffusion of model prison provides the way to understand the meaning of “interconnection” by media between modern China and the world. Interconnection not only means the dynamics of information flow, value transmission and power expansion by multiple media hybridity, but also means the active role of the dynamic mechanism formed by media production in world hierarchical order.