~庚子事变后，清政府培养新式人才以图富强，在全国各地大力推行学堂教育。同时，为解决办学经费不足的问题，清政府制定了移用地方公产发展教育等方针，并把地方办学权责下放给地方士绅。然而，部分士绅在办学的过程借机为自己谋取私利，士绅之间也因利益相争而冲突不断，阻学事件层见叠出。对此乱象，《广东日报》进行持续的报道与批判，士绅的形象也逐渐由高高在上的“四民之首”转变成“阻学蛮绅”，乃至“毁学恶魔”。
作为一份对新式教育相当重视的报刊，《广东日报》在对此类现象进行持续报道批评的同时，无形中勾勒出一个“阻学士绅”的负面形象，主要是盘踞公款之恶绅、藉学渔利之劣绅与嗾僧毁学之蛮绅。士绅“阻学”负面形象的生成原因，缘于阻学士绅罔顾兴学洪流，站在兴学的对立面，因而备受社会舆论的批评。同时，也与《广东日报》巧妙的报道方式以及该报潜藏的革命态度有关。
士绅负面形象的生成实际上凸显出士绅阶层在社会转型期遭遇到的信任危机与结构性危机，一方面是内部利益的不协调，一方面是兴学过程中与各方所产生的矛盾冲突，而这种冲突的复杂性往往被遮盖，呈现出来的只是片面性的信息。

~ After the Gengzi Incident, the Qing government decided to train new talents to become rich and powerful, and ordered the promotion of school education throughout the country. At the same time, in order to solve the problem of insufficient funds for running schools, the Qing government had formulated a policy of transferring local public property to develop education, and had placed local responsibility for running schools to local gentry. However, some of the gentry in the process of running a school took the opportunity to seek self-interest for themselves, and the gentry also clashed with each other because of the dispute of interests so that the incidents of the obscenity were stacked. In response to this chaos, the The Canton Times continued to report and criticize, and the image of the gentry was gradually changed from "the top of the four kinds of people," to the "barbarians of hindering study" and even the the "destruction of the devil".
As a newspaper that attached great importance to new-style education, it continued to report criticism of such phenomenons. Meanwhile, it outlined an image of gentry who obstructing the education development. It mainly includes occupying local public funds, using school-running strategies for get personal gain and abetting verbose monks to destroy schools. The reason for the generation of the negative image of the gentry who obstructing the education development was due to the enthusiasm of the scholars and the enthusiasm of the students, standing on the opposite side of the school and being criticized by public opinion. At the same time, it was also related to the crafty reporting method of The Canton Times and the hidden revolutionary attitude of the newspaper.
The generation of gentry's negative image actually highlighted the trust crisis and structural crisis which encountered by the gentry group during the social transition period. On the one hand, the internal interests were not coordinated, on the other hand, the conflicts between the parties and the parties are caused by the process of education development. The complexity of such conflicts was often obscured, presenting only one-sided information.

摘 要 I
Abstract II
绪论 1
一、选题缘起与研究意义 1
二、概念界定 2
三、学术史回顾 6
四、研究方法 11
第一章 清末广东“阻学”现象的发生 13
一、清末广东兴办学堂概况 13
二、兴学过程中出现的“阻学”现象 14
第二章 《广东日报》的创办及对“阻学”问题的关注 18
一、《广东日报》的创办及其革命性 18
二、《广东日报》视野下的“阻学”现象 24
第三章 《广东日报》中的士绅“阻学”形象 29
一、盘踞公款之恶绅 29
二、藉学渔利之劣绅 31
三、嗾僧毁学之蛮绅 33
第四章 《广东日报》士绅“阻学”负面形象生成原因分析 42
一、清末日益高涨之兴学潮流 42
二、兴学、阻学：清末士绅的两种面相 44
三、《广东日报》塑造士绅负面形象的方式 46
四、《广东日报》革命立场对士绅负面形象生成的影响 48
结语 51
参考文献 54
附录 60
后记 62