严复仕途刍议

My Humble Opioion on Yan Fu's Official Career

和日人伊藤博文同窗数载的严复回国后有与伊氏迥然不同的政治遭遇 ,深究之 ,有其政治经济背景、“政治靠山”。

Yan Fu sighed: 'To be classmates with Japanese Yitengbowen for years, but our political fate is quite different.' The reason was that there was different political economic background between china and Japan at that time. Yan Fu didnt have 'political supporters', so it was very hard for him to have a chance to be promoted. His advanced ideas and different views made him not to be good use as well as he was very exclusive in his manner and was not good at flatering, all above this had given him a certain influence.