传教士是最先在中国开始新式教科书编译和出版工作的群体。他们为了促进教会学校的发展和传播西学,组建了中国近代最早编译出版教科书的专门机构——益智书会。传教士对中国近代教科书的产生、发展及西学的传播起到了促进作用。 Missionaries were the first to start a new translation and publication of textbooks in China. In order to promote the development of ecclesiastical schools and disseminate western learning, they set up the Puzzle Club, the first institution in modern China to compile and publish textbooks. Missionaries promoted the emergence and development of modern Chinese textbooks and the spread of Western learning.