广学会,由英美基督教传教士于1887创立于上海,系由1884年设立的同文书会改组而成,1892年始称广学会。英人赫德为第一任董事长,英国传教士韦廉士·李提摩太等先后任总干事。该会为外人在华创设的最大的出版机构。主要会员有英人慕维廉、艾约瑟,美国的林乐知、李佳白,德人花之安等。以“输入最近知识,振起国民精神,广布基督恩纶”为幌子,对 The Institute of Sociology, founded by Anglo-American Christian missionaries in Shanghai in 1887, was reorganized by the same instruments established in 1884, and was known as the Institute of Sociology in 1892. British Hurd as the first chairman, the British missionary Wei Lianshi Li Timothy and so has served as the Director-General. The association is the largest publisher of outsiders in China. The main members are the British Mu Weilian, Ai Yuse, the United States, Lin Lezhi, Li Jiabai, the German flower Ann. In the guise of “entering the most recent knowledge, inspiring the spirit of the nation and spreading the Eun-tong of the Christ”