“师夷”以“制夷”:鸦片战争时期先进知识分子的文化选择

"Learning from the Foreingers" to "Control Them" :A Historical Study on the Cultural Choices of Elites during the Opium War

鸦片战争前后是中国处于社会转型的艰难时期,在复杂的文化背景下,清政府闭关锁国的政策使传统文化与外来文化相互排斥又相互交织。以林则徐、魏源等为代表的先进知识分子抛弃守旧观念,提出'师夷长技以制夷'的主张,积极学习外来先进文化,寻求富国强兵之道,在文化选择上展现了中国近代先进知识分子强烈的家国责任感和勇于担当的文化精神。

During the First Opium War,the Chinese society underwent difficult social transformation.The Qing government’s policy to keeping the foreigners away prevented the western culture from being absorbed.However,the two cultures had already interacted with each other.Elites had abandoned the old-fashioned views and raised the idea of'learning from foreign advanced skills to control the foreigners'.