薛福成的文化视野与改革思想

On Xue Fucheng's Cultural Vision and His Reform Ideas

薛福成作为中国近代改良思想家,在眷守中国传统文化的同时,认真察取西方先进文化,并力求对中西文化进行初步的整合。在政治上,他赞赏西方"君民共主"的体制,主张变法革新;在经济上,他引进西方一系列与发展资本主义工商业相适应的进步理念;在教育上,他参酌传统经世致用思想,强调新的时代需大力培育"适变求存"、深谙汽光电化的专门人才。他的文化视野与改革思想在康梁变法之前是最开阔、最领先的,有着不容忽视的地位和影响。

Xue Fucheng as one of the Chinese reformist thinkers in modem period, had kept the Chinese traditional culture, at the same time, he took seriously the advanced Western culture, and sought preliminarily to integrate the Chinese and Western cultures. In politics, he appreciated the Western ＂constitutional convention＂ system to advocate political reformation; economically, he introduced the Western progressive ideas of the development of capitalist industry and commerce; in education, he stressed to make great efforts to cultivate the scientific experts who were with ＂appropriate change to survive＂, and well versed in the steam photoelectric expertise. His cultural vision and reformation idea was the most open and advanced and couldn＇ t be ignored before the Kang - Liang Reformation.