Wei Yuan And Modern China Opening

Wei Yuan is an outstanding thinker, reformer, historian and writer in starting point of the Chinese modern history, and also one of the first people who indicated opening to the world. Especially his opening thought, has great influence on the course of Chinese modernization. It almost led the theme of a generation.There is special background of Wei Yuan's opening thought. At that time, China was in front of the great change. And the situation was the same in academe. Wei Yuan's opening thought was a developing procession. It got a lot from traditional culture and philosophy. On the foundation of criticizing and self-reflection, it took on the western science and advanced thoughts for resolving the social problem. Wei Yuan's opening thought concluded two aspects. On one hand, it focused on the malpractices of government and designed some revolution plans. On the other hand, it protested to study the enemy and to bring it under control. Through the study of Wei Yuan's opening thought, we can get some profitable historical experiences. For example, pay attention to Chinese traditional ideology's emergency ability and the policy of reformation. According to the limitation of time, there must be some disadvantages of his thought, like the short of maneuverability and creativity, whatever, not having an academic systematization.And through the study of Wei Yuan's Opening thought, we can know some clues of the thought's movement at the opening of Chinese modernization. Also it can provide worshipful experiences for today's socialism modernization.