“师夷制夷”与辛亥革命

Learning from the Foreigners in Order to Restricting themt and the X inhai Revolution

近代以来,以林则徐、魏源为代表的开明地主阶级知识分子提出的“师夷长技以制夷”的战略思想,从理论上开辟了一条近代中国反帝反封的民族民主革命道路。辛亥革命在“师夷”方面超过了以往的任何时期,内容更加丰富,仿照欧美模式建立了资产阶级共和国——中华民国,具有重大的历史意义。然而辛亥革命在“制夷”方面却存在着严重的缺点与不足,民族资产阶级的软弱性和妥协性不时地暴露出来。辛亥革命的最终失败说明资产阶级没有能力领导中国革命取得胜利,资产阶级共和国的道路在中国行不通。中国革命若要取得胜利,必须寻找新的出路。

After China entered into the modern times, Lin Ze Xu and Wei Yuan,both the representatives of the enlightened Chinese intellectuals in the late Qing Dynasty, proposed the idea of learning from the foreigners in order to restrict them. Their idea paved the way for the Xinhai Revolution, the national democratic event that led to the founding of the Republic of China . In learning from the west, the Xinhai revolution was unprecedented. The Republic of China was modeled after Europe and the United States. However,the Xinhai Revolution was seriously flawed in ＂restricting the foreigners＂. Its ultimate failure proved that the bourgeois class had been unable to lead the Chinese revolution to victory. An alternative had to be found for China.