薛福成、黄遵宪与晚清海禁政策的废除

Xue Fucheng,Huang Zunxian and Abolishment of the Ban of Maritime Trade Policy during the Late Qing Dynasty

19世纪70年代以后,海外华侨的经济实力逐步增强,清政府对华侨的作用认识逐步加深,这样就形成了巨大的外力和内力,迫使清政府改变以往的华侨政策,在清朝官员黄遵宪和薛福成的竭力推动下,终于在1893年废除明清时期长期以来的海禁政策。从中我们可以窥见晚清"海禁"政策的调整与当时中国发展之间的密切关系,以及在很大程度上预示了之后中国近代史的发展轨迹。

With the gradual increasing economic power of overseas Chinese since the 1870＇ s, Qing government became more con- scious of the role of overseas Chinese, which thus forms the enormous pull and driving force. Thus it forced Qing government to change the past policy toward overseas Chinese. Under the great promotion of the officials in Qing Dynasty, Xue Fueheng and Huang Zunxian, the ban on maritime trade policy carried out for a long time in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty finally was abolished in 1893.