The Research On Westernization Group’s Talent Standards

The research on “Talent Standards” is an indispensable aspect of “Talent Thoughts”,Westernization Group’s talent standards include talent training,selection and appointment.The paper plans to present overall appearance of Westernization Group’s talent standards which is mainly based on their memorials.Compared with the traditional social’s standards of talent,Westernization Group’s standards are more pragmatic.I hope to better understand the Westernization Group’s talent thoughts through this paper.Zeng guofan,Zuo zongtang,Li hongzhang and Zhang zhidong who are the representive of westernization group were deeply aware of the importance of the talent.Compared with the traditional imperial examination,which was limited in five classics and the eight-part essay without any innovation,westernization group paid more attention on the practical application.They prefered to chose people who learn about Western knowledge and have the ability to work.On the one hand,Westernization group paid attention to the virtue of talent.On the other hand,because of their advocating of the technology and quality,people who had learned western knowledge had chance to enter the system of officials,What is more important,the ingenuity of the Chinese is directed towards the correct historical direction of modernization.In a word,Although there are still some problems in westernization group’s standards,its impact was in a steady and solid erosion of the foundation of the old rule,subtly transformed the traditional society and laid foundation of the modern society of change.