1840年鴉片戰爭爆發，此一千古未有之大變局，促使各地官紳及知識分子紛紛投入文化出版與教育事業。為能即時因應中外關係及國內政治、社會情勢的劇變，「期刊」這一新興媒體受到知識分子青睞，成為啟迪民智、宣揚自身理念的利器，各種刊物陸續創辦，甲午戰爭後更達到高峰，再現百家爭鳴的盛況。晚清期刊在譯介西學新知，倡議政治改革，推動白話文使用，深化專業研究，宣揚男女平等，鼓勵文藝創作，以及提供市民休閒等諸多面向均扮演重要角色，是研究近代政治、社會、思想、文化轉型的珍貴文獻資料。國家圖書館職司文獻典藏，收藏如《點石齋畫報》、《民報》、《月月小說》、《婦女時報》等晚清期刊共51種。目前已完成《點石齋畫報》、《新新小說》、《游戲世界》之影像與篇目建置，未來將持續整理並匯入資料庫，提供各界查詢利用。

After the First Opium War ended, the local gentry and intellectual in China were devoted into cultural and educational industries. More and more periodicals were published to enlighten people and the publishing was boom after War of Jiawu. These periodicals published in the late Qing that translated western learning, involved political revolutions, written and spoken vernacular Chinese, advocated gender liberation. The collection contains Dianshizhai huabao, Min Bao, The All-Story Monthly, Funü shibao, and so on. These materials can be searched and used in the Periodicals in late Qing Dynasty Database.