李提摩太与晚清洋务派官僚之间的文化博弈

The Cultural Game between Timothy Richard and the Bureaucratic Class of the Late Qing Dynasty

英国传教士李提摩太希望以“肉体拯救”和“心智拯救”为手段,最终实现对中国人的“灵魂拯救”。晚清官僚阶层中的洋务派在对外态度上相对开明,他们对于李提摩太的“肉体拯救”和“心智拯救”基本上是接受的,甚至是欢迎和感恩的,但对于他的“灵魂拯救”却始终保持警惕和抵制心态。李提摩太与洋务派官僚之间一系列的文化博弈是一幅近代中西方文化交流与冲突的生动画卷,是近代中国在“迎”与“拒”的艰难选择中走向文化转型的缩影。

British missionary Timothy Richard hoped to use“physical salvation”and“mental salvation”as means to finally realize the“soul salvation”of the Chinese.The Westernization faction in the bureaucratic class in the late Qing Dynasty was relatively open-minded.They basically accepted Timothy’s“salvation of the body”and“salvation of the mind”,even welcomed and grateful,but they always maintained a vigilant and resisting mentality for his“salvation of the soul”.A series of cultural games between Timothy Richard and the bureaucrats of the Westernization faction is an animated scroll of modern Sino-Western cultural exchanges and conflicts.It is a microcosm of modern China’s cultural transformation amid the difficult choice of“welcome”or“reject”.