桐城派与近代社会改良思潮

Tongcheng School and Modern Social Reformation Trends

桐城派是中国文学史上一个影响广泛、深远的散文流派,也是中国文化史上有着辉煌业绩的学派。桐城派传承者不仅关注桐城文法与桐城古文,传承桐城派的救世理念,而且侧重从"经济"层面探讨经国济邦。一方面,近代桐城派传承的代表性人物吴汝纶、黎庶昌等与曾国藩、李鸿章等有密切关联;另一方面,近代桐城派的主要活动与中国近代文化思潮更迭中的中西文化论争流变相始终,桐城派人物活跃在中国近代各改良思潮中,并对近代社会变革思潮的建构有重要影响。这些都是解读桐城派文统变迁的关键。

Tongcheng School is widely influential and profound prose school in Chinese literary history, and also is the school with glorious achievements in the history of Chinese culture. The successors of Tongcheng School not only attach great importance to Tongcheng literary theory and Tongcheng classical prose, but also make an analysis of the country＇s economic growth from the economic perspective. On the one hand, the modern representative successors of Tongcheng School is WU Ru-lun, LI Shu-ehang who were closely related to ZENG Guo-fang, on the other hand, the main modern activities of Tongcheng School were involved with dispute between Chinese and Western culture in the modern China s cultural thought trend transformation in the beginning. Tongcheng School people were actively involved in the modern China＇ s literary reformation trends, and exerted an important influence on the construction of modern social reformation thoughts, which is the key to interpretation of Tongcheng School literary vicis- situdes.