Xia Xie Of China-Spain Relations Research

XiaXie is an advanced intellectuals who realized and advocated to learn from theadvanced Hesperian in the scholar-officials of late Qing Dynasty.He wad born in1800,anddied of1875,went through two Opium Wars and The Taiping Rebellion in his lifetime. Thoughhe just a county Professor Emeritus, compared to Lin Zexue and Weiyuan, the cognition to therelationship of Chinese and Western is not fall behind. Indeed he wrote 《Chronicle of Chineseand Western》to be the earlier famous books for studying the relationship of Chinese andWestern in morden China.This text is based on 《Chronicle of Chinese and Western》《Tongjian of Ming Dynasty》《Chronicle of Taiping Rebellion》,will carding and study Xiaxie’s cognition to therelationship of Chinese and Western. By means of furthermore compared with thecontemporaneous advanced intellectuals, obtain the originality of Xiaxie’s cognition to therelationship of Chinese and Western. First Opium War opened the prelude of the westerncolonial state invaded in Chinese, Xiaxie thought that the disaster of modern China throughshould track bake to the trade between Qing Dynasty with Western early time when heconcluded the cause of war. However, he thought government shouldn’t close the country tointernational intercourse, it is behavior of “throw away the apple because of the core”. When hetalk about all round coping strategy and attitudes of the Qing Dynasty in the course of FirstOpium War, with intense feelings of patriotism he criticized the cowardice and disability ofthe peace group bitterly, indeed he praise the hero deed of patriotic soldiers and civilians whoresisted the invasion of the western colonial state with passion. In the issue of whether get theaid of France and America or not, Xiaxie disagree with Zeng Guofan (high-ranking official), hethink it is “please send Buddha easy to difficult”,so he expressed strong opposition to the issue.In the face of advanced Hesperian, the same with Lin Zexue and Weiyuan, he thought weshould learn western advanced science and Technology. However he presentedcontemporaneous that we should not blindly follow the trend, we must seize the moment. Asthe lowest level of Qing Dynasty officials, it is very commendable that Xiaxie had suchadvanced cognition.In his late years, the thought of Xiaxie was trend to conservative. From his book《Chronicle of Chinese and Western》continue writing in1860, we can discern his denselegitimism obviously. The attitudes to Taiping Rebellion, Xiaxie stand on the ruling class, hewas full of hostility to this farmer army. Facing with the invasion pioneer of the westerncolonial state missionary, Xiaxie totally repudiated all of the activities of missionary. He eventhought that the school of missionary opened and overseas students Qing Dynasty sent weretraining traitors. Meanwhile, out of hostility to missionary Xiaxie even trusted some incrediblerumors about missionary grazing eclipse babies and cutting out eyes.