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"western Learning Introduced Into China" And The Modernization Of Economic Thought In Late Qing Dynasty (1860-1911)

Posted on:2011-01-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y K LiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199330332966703Subject:World History
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The Opium War in 1840 opened the curtain of modern Chinese history, China has begun to become a semi-feudal society. To the 1911 demise of the Qing dynasty, the Qing in the "millennium not the changing situation," the changes of the times. With the invasion of China by Western powers stepped up, while Western civilization is also a profound impact on the process of modernization of Chinese society. Internal troubles in the face of foreign aggression, save the pursuit of wealth for strong concern for the fate of many common aspiration of the advanced scholar. The West, look for Enriching the truth, take the country road to industrialization, to become the theme of social development in the late Qing era. In this context.The second " western learning introduced into china " campaign began rise and development of Western culture to China began the process of mass communication, the Chinese society from the traditional to begin the difficult process of modernization. The Protestant missionaries and overseas intellectual groups in the time of the " western learning introduced into china " activities play an important role for the exchange of Chinese and Western culture plays a "preacher" of the media role; large number of Western art cultural knowledge through the missionaries and the spread overseas intellectuals to China to promote the modernization process of Chinese society.Late Qing Modern Economic Thought of the early stage (1860 -1894), the missionary in the Western and the spread of theory plays the principal role. Them through the translation of books, set up schools, set up courses in economics of education, some of the modern capitalist economic theory spread to China, the impact of "Restraining Commerce", "Your righteousness cheap benefit" concept of traditional feudal economy and promoting China's Economic Thought in Early Modern Times. The early 20th century, with the increasing number of channels of cultural exchange between the missionaries lost as the main medium of cultural exchange between the status of Returned overseas Chinese and Western intellectuals groups constitute the main body of the exchange. Therefore, the Late Modern Economic Thought of the final stage (1895-1911), the overseas study of Western intellectuals, widespread in China, economics played a main role, they translated and wrote books, a large number of Western economics and the theory of transmission into China, influenced and changed the tradition of Chinese intellectuals feudal economic philosophy. Overseas intellectuals of this period has to some extent mastered the basic content of western economics, and in order to analyze China's economic problems, put forward the idea of economic reform, the promotion of economic thought from the late Qing "Revitalization of the business" to "Reviving the Industry" changes.The first chapter in the development of modern capitalist economy under the foreign economic changes of the main line of thought, thinking of traditional Chinese feudal economy were reviewed. Meanwhile, the combination of historical background, analysis of China's traditional feudal economic thought of modern economic thought in the West under the impact and challenges are discussed for the first time to the 1860 Opium War, China's economic ideas of refinement, pointing out its shortcomings and deficiencies, indicating China's economic thinking Modernization of urgency.Second, the chapters for the main part of this article, through the West during the late Qing Dynasty and the theory of modern economics in China in historical track back, reflect the 1860-1911 Economic Thought in late qing Phases of modernization, and thus the period modern Western economics and the theory of the spread in China that is the main Protestant missionaries and overseas intellectuals to make a group profile. And representatives from the spread in the body of the literature works, ideas such as starting, research and analysis 1860-1911 modernization of China's rapid economic changes in thinking, summed up the reasonable elements and positive.The conclusion part of the 1860-1911 Economic Thought in Late Qing changes in the development of the modernization process and lessons learned, summarize and sublimation, made reference.
Keywords/Search Tags:Western learning introduced into china, Economic thought in Late Qing Dynast, Protestant missionaries, Overseas in the Chinese intellectuals, Modernization
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