试论魏源的开放观

On Weiyuan's Open Viewpoint

鸦片战争后,魏源开创性地提出了了解外国情况、学习外国长技、引进外国人才、走出国门求师,以及坚持和发展对外贸易以富国强兵的主张。这些主张大体构成了中国近代第一个对外开放的纲领。尽管魏源为捍卫儒学和佛教而排斥天主教在中国的传播并有殃及西学之嫌,但他的开放观无疑标志着中国的思想文化从清朝中古式的封闭向近代式的开放迈出了极其宝贵的一步,具有划时代的意义。

After the Opium War,Weiyuan put forward the following views for the first time in China ,Such as knowing foreign condition, studying foreign advaced skill, introducing foreign talented person ,steping off nation＇ entrance to study, insisting on developing foreign trade to enrich the country and increase its military force. These opinions had composed the first open guilding principle toward foreign countries basicly in Chinese modem history. Although Wei Yuan rejected the dissemination of Catholic in China in order to defend Confucianism and Buddhism and had the thought tendency of negating the western learning,his open view sybolized dounfless that Chinese thought and culture had taken a very important single-step toward modem opening to the outside world from the middle ages＇ close of ching-dynasty and this point had opch-making meaning.