Research On “Chinese Origins For Western Knowledge” In Modern China

The "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" takes Chinese traditional culture as the "source" and Western learning as the "flow",emphasizing that "Western learning has long existed in China" or "Westerners steal the leftovers of Chinese traditional culture".It is based on the assumption that Chinese traditional culture is absolutely superior to that of western.At present,the research results of the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" mainly concentrate on the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty,and the results of the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China are relatively weak.Therefore,the study of "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" involves the understanding and knowledge of major historical and theoretical issues in the history of science and technology and so on,which has great theoretical and academic value.The origin of "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" was accompanied by the "Eastward Spread of Western Learning" in the late Ming dynasty.And it was enlightened by Xu Guangqi,Yang Tingyun and other academic elucidations,and it was finally theorized in Mei Wending after the calendar dispute in the early Qing Dynasty through the academic argumentation of Wang Xichan and others.In the middle of the Qing Dynasty,the exchange between China and the West stopped because of China’s self-seclusion,and the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" also fell into silence.After modern times,Western culture spread to the east after the Opium War,and the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" was revisited.Taking the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty as the time node,the evolution of the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China can be divided into formative period,development period and decline period.From the perspective of the inheritance of historical development,the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty was an important source of the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China.At the end of the Ming Dynasty,the "The Eastward Spread of Western Learning" enlightened the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge",which provided ideological enlightenment for the modern China’s "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge".The calendar dispute in the early Qing dynasty gave birth to the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" and laid the theoretical foundation for that of modern China.The passive response to the impact of heterogeneous and heterogeneous cultures,the inertial thinking of the "one source radiation" cultural view,the distorted heavenly mentality of the Chinese scholar groups,and the realistic theoretical needs to deal with external challenges constitute the mainstay of the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China.Taking the three stages of "formation-development-decline" as the axis,the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" continued to develop from the second half of the 19 th century to the beginning of the 20 th century.In the period of formation,in order to alleviate the resistance to the introduction of Western learning,the bureaucrats of the Westernization Movement and the radicals of the Westernization Movement have proposed the theory that natural science originates from China,that machine manufacturing originates from China and that the House of Representatives originates from China.In the period of development,the bourgeois reformers represented by Kang Youwei put forward the theory that the House of Representatives originated from China and Western politics originated from China.The conservative school represented by Wang Renjun also used the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" as a weapon to oppose the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" of the Reformers.Wang Renjun emphasized: since western learning originated from ancient China,Chinese traditional culture is the most superior.China can defeat the West as long as it excavates and promotes its traditional culture instead of learning from the West.As people’s understanding of Western learning continues to deepen,the drawbacks and irrationality of "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" have gradually revealed.People of insight represented by Yan Fu began to criticize the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge".At this point,the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China began to decline from prosperity.In the period of decline,the New Reforms at the end of Qing Dynasty made Western learning formally an official education,and the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" gradually lost its necessity.At the same time,nationalists in the late Qing Dynasty develop the theory of "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge",and the argumentation thinking has changed from "using Chinese to prove the West" to "Chinese and Western harmony".The "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" has completely lost its academic discourse power.Looking at the evolution of the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China,it has practicability that changes at times,the contradictory nature of fluidity and the enlightenment of learning from the past and knowing the present.The "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China has an important positive function,which greatly stimulates the spread of Western learning in China,motivates the exploration of Chinese excellent traditional culture,and promoted the modernization process of modern China.At the same time,the "Chinese Origins for Western Knowledge" in modern China also has a load effect such as confusing the boundaries and differences between middle school and western learning,hindering the establishment of modern scientific thinking mode,and further contributing to the mentality of the Chinese people in the heavenly state and the central power.