明末清初的西学东渐与中国近现代科技转型

Western Learning Spreading to the East in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties and the Modern Transition of Science and Technology in China

明末清初发生的、伴随着耶稣会士来华传教而展开的西方科学技术传入中国的历史事件,可以称为西学东渐第一波。它给17世纪中国科技发展带来了全新的可能性,却因各种客观的和主观的因素交互作用,逐渐由"西学东渐"蜕变为"西学东源",终致中国近代科技转型的可能性在清代中叶之后完全丧失。然而,这一波西学东渐让西方科技开始传入中国,让原本两个平行发展的科技传统开始交会,堪称近现代中国科技转型的前驱。

The introduction ot western science and technology Into China, wmcn rook place in me late Ming and early Qing Dynasties with the mission of Jesuits, can be called the first wave of West- ern Learning Spreading to the East. It gave China new chances to develop science and technology in the 17th century. However, due to the interaction of various factors, both objective and subjective, ＂Western Learning Spreading to the East＂ gradually transformed into an ideology of ＂Western Learning Originated from East＂. As a result, the possibility of modern transition of science and technology in China dropped to zero after the mid-Qing Dynasty. But in other ways, this wave of Western Learning Spreading to the East brought western science and technology into China. Then two originally parallel traditions began to intersect, which became a precursor to the transition of science and technology in modern China.