王韬的笔记作品,大略可以分为志怪、狭邪、游记和史志等几类。从年轻时的侧艳之文到老年后的忆旧之作、史乘之笔,明显展露其笔记观念的变化。王韬的笔记观较之前人并没有大的超越,尤其是在功能论上,远未突破消遣娱乐、教化劝惩、补史传世的传统认识。但其笔记创作,却更多是穷愁发愤的结果。王韬尤其关注到了笔记传播的商业、技术进步以及媒介等因素。在整个清代笔记发展史中,王韬的笔记具有承前启后的重要地位。其笔记作品成为探究面临三千年未有之变局的中国传统士人,向现代知识分子转型过程中心路历程的一份绝佳样本。 Notes Wang Tao’s works, roughly can be divided into strange strange, evil spirits, travel and history and other categories. From the youthful Yan of the text to the memory of the old memories after the old, pen history shows the changes in their notations. Wang Tao’s notes do not surpass the previous ones, especially in functionalism, far from breaking through the traditional understanding of recreational activities, persuasion and punishment, and making up historical accounts. But the notes creation, but more is the result of poor and angry. Wang Tao paid particular attention to the commercialization of notes, technological progress and media and other factors. Throughout the history of the development of notes in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Tao’s notes have an important bearing on the past. His notes have become an excellent example of the journey through which Chinese traditional scholars who face challenges that have not changed for three thousand years to the process of transforming the modern intelligentsia.