王韬:江南知识分子走向世界与现代的先锋意义

WANG Tao: An Intellectual of the Southern Yangtze River Area Pioneer Significance of Going Outside to the Modern World

王韬是晚清"条约口岸知识分子"的代表人物,他早年在上海长期受雇于传教士设立的墨海书馆,在那里他接触到了最新的西方科技和文化。中年以后的王韬,在致力于新闻出版和教育事业,并积极将中国传统文化经典推介到海外的同时,得到了游历欧洲和日本的机会,他大力推动中外文化的交流和共同发展,并将国外的先进经验应用于在中国的实践,从而成为江南地区最早走向世界的现代知识分子。

As a representative of the intellectuals in the treaty port cities in the late Qing Dynasty, WANG Tao served in the London Missionary Society Press established by British missionaries for a long time, where he was acquainted with the western technology and culture. After his middle age, WANG Tao got the opportunity to visit Europe and Japan while he was focusing on the enterprises of newspaper, publishing and education. He vigorously promoted the Sino-foreign cultural exchanges and common development. He actively introduced and promoted the Chi- nese traditional and classical culture overseas and advanced the application of foreign experience in China in the meantime. Thus, WANG Tao became one of the earliest Chinese modern intellectuals to the world.