晚清民间知识分子的西学观——以上海格致书院为例

Popular Intellectual’s Views on Western Learning in the Late Qing: A Case study of Shanghai Ploytechnic Institution and Reading Room

本文以上海格致书院为例,以《格致书院课艺》为基本史料,集中阐述了作为民间知识群体的格致书院学生的西学知识结构及其对中西学关系、引进西学的方法等问题的基本认识,从普通民众角度揭示了当时中国思想界的西学观。格致书院学生的思想虽然不似站在历史前台的“大人物”的思想能够左右国家政策,但作为一种潜在的民间思想仍具有社会感召力。

Taking Shanghai Ploytechnic Institution and Reading Room as an example and its testpapers the basic historical source material, to explain the making a popular intellectual community among students of Gezhi academy as well as their understanding of the structure of Western knowledge, the relationship between Chinese and Western learning and methods for introducing Western learning. This paper elucidates Chinese intellectuals＇ conception of Western learning from the viewpoint of common people. Although the views of students from Shanghai Ploytechnic Institution and Reading Room did not decide national policy, like an important actor on the historical stage, the students＇ thoughts still had a powerful influence and served as an indication of potential popular thought.