Discuss Daizhen And Western

The Chinese and western cultural exchange of Ming and qing dynasties was a veryimportant cultural phenomenon in the Chinese and foreign history. With themissionaries come to China,the Christian theology as the main body of the Westernwhich had attracted the interest of some traditional Chinese was introduced intoChina.They not only helped the missionaries for translating Western books, but alsostudied the science and technology knowledge, and applied them in the practice ofChina.From Wanli in the Ming dynasty to Qianlong in the qing dynasty, the exchang ofthe Chinese and western cultural had experienced a very complex development andchange. This paper was going to do a summary about the Western,according to thisbackground, and discussed its influence in Chinese intelligentsia,then coupled with therise of calendar and calculation learning in Ming and qing dynasties, took Dai Zhen as acase to study the relationship between the man and the western learning.The central structure of the article was divided into four parts.The first part gave asummary about the exchang between Chinese and Western culture in the period of Mingand Qing,on the vissue of the history by stages,and took it to the background of the text;The second part stated the contact of Daizhen and the Western,and considered thescholar who studied the Western and got in touch with Daizhen as the research object torecommed the imposibility of this contact; The third part discussed that Daizhenresearched the Western learning and formed the attitude about the Western learning;The fourth part analized that Daizhen aborbed the Western learning into practice.Thewhole paper took Daizhen and Western as the main line,and discussed the process ofcontact,research, and then used the Western into his thoughts in the method withhistorical analysis and history literature study. Finally, revealed the true face of therelationship with Daizhen and Western.This paper argues that Dai zhen and western have a certain relationship.We shouldnot exaggerate or ignore the relationship, but adopt the objective attitude towards thisrelationship. Western was introduced into China from the Ming dynasty, and to the qingdynasty of qianlong emperor, it had been for hundreds of years, the cultural influencehas been, and DaiZhen existed place-exchanges between Chinese and western cultures,the contact of western learning and research have certain restriction, and in his mind, the Western always does not occupy the main body of the place, so the relationship betweenDaizhen and the western learning is very limited.