The Overseas Travel Notes And The Western Learning Penetrating To Eastward During The Westernization Movement Time

Looking over the history of The western learning penetrating to eastward in the modern time history its path was winding and advancing. Although cause the learning psychology was conservative and blindly following it made the every step of western learning wasted effort. The wheel of the modern China history was throughout advance. From being arrogant and stopping all foreign contact to understanding the situation clearly and going out to another country, Chinese thought was experiencing huge shocking and transformation.This article try to take the overseas travel notes of the Chinese writers who went to the west during 19th century 60's westernization movement emerges to 19th century 90'sSino-Japanese War of 1894-95 eruption as research object to analysis the relations between the overseas travel notes and the western learning penetrating to eastward during the westernization movement time In the first chapter the article briefly introduced the situation of the overseas travel during the westernization movement time .At first briefly introduced the China's national condition change after the Opium War at this time China was compelled to open up to the foreign countries, and as a world member was brought into the international exchange. While the national political economy was under the impacting the thought and the culture also received impacting of the western culture .To reply the unprecedented aspect in the Qing government had raised a gigantic westernization movement by the bureaucrat literary intelligentsia. The goal was through learning western military and the manufacture technology, to construct military enterprises and Civil enterprises in domestic, so that they can resists the impacting of western firm ship , sharp artillery and the big machine commodity ,and achieve the goal-learning foreign skill to resist the foreigner. To understand the west better all kinds of official and the folk travel started activity in the westernization movement time. In this part these traveler were division different category, and their overseas travel notes were introduced separately.The second chapter is the core of this article and it is the paper's main body. The relations between the overseas travel notes and the western learning penetrating to eastward during the westernization movement time was explained as an emphases. First this article has made the introduction of the definition and the scope of the overseas travel notes. Because the westernization movement time western learning inputting mainly came from Europe and America, therefore this article's researching object is also mainly about the westernization movement time overseas travel notes that concerned with European and American. Next through the introduction that the overseas travel notes made about the west in westernization movement time the article discusses the advancement and change content of the western learning penetrating to eastward. Through overseas travel notes of the westernization movement time, We may see through the authors'eyes the western world certainly does not like the domestic fable as wild world, on the contrary, In the travel notes the western world had highly civilized society, the boom economic and the enlighten people It is a nation of the etiquette. This article from the aspect of ethics morals, economy, politics, culture and education, military and so on inspects the influence to travelers'thought while they traveling to the west. Then the article discusses how these overseas travel notes influent the Chinese modern times western learning penetrates to eastward when they speeded to home. The westernization movement time overseas travel notes had enriched people's geography knowledge, propagandized the western civilization, promoted the development of studying abroad the education, propagandized the thought which the political innovates and impelled the reform movement. Otherwise this part also analyzed the difference between China and Japan to learn western. From the overseas travel notes we can see the different manner and way between China and Japan in the modern process of western learning penetrating to eastward caused China to fall behind Japan on the modern times path and finally defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 under Japan's gun artillery.The third chapter has analyzed the limitation of overseas travel notes in the westernization movement time. Because in the westernization movement time overseas traveler own had thought and social class limitation, their overseas travel notes were also marked with the Chinese feudalism traditional culture manifest everywhere in the content. Cultural superiority feeling and moral superiority feeling was always leaking in the book. They take "Chinese being body and western culture being assistant" and " western learning come from Chinese" as the theory basis. They hope may find the evidence that the Chinese civilization finally to surpass the western civilization and when studying the west simultaneously they hope may guarantee the honored status of "the Confucianism". The attitude made political opinion and economic thought that the overseas travel notes proposed can not solve Chinese modern times problem effectively. It also make we more soberly realize the reason why westernization movement defeat Westernization movement time overseas travel is the result that modern time relations of China and foreign development and international situation change impetus The travelers'overseas travel notes had objectively impelled the development which the modern western learning penetrating to eastward, developed people's vision, propagandized necessity of the western learning, accelerated Chinese advancement of the modern times. And overseas travel moves itself also was result of the impetus by the western learning penetrating to eastward That may say in the westernization movement time the relations between the overseas travel notes and the western learning penetrating to eastward was mutual promotion and inflection. Simultaneously also it was the relations between the partial and the whole The overseas travel notes also are parts of the process of the western learning penetrating eastward in entire modern time...