摘要
以张之洞为代表的洋务派创办农务学堂,聘请洋教习,引进良种果木等举措客观上推动了中国传统农业向近代农业的改良和进步。作为张之洞聘请的首位洋教习,美国人布里尔来华工作三年时间,是近代历史上中美以官方性质开展农业科技交流的最早参与者。他在中国引进优良品种,推介国外农具和书籍,传播先进的农业科学技术和农学思想。作为湖北农务学堂的主要筹建者之一,布里尔为近代中国农业教育的起步与发展也做出了积极的贡献。但是,结合史料客观分析,布里尔来华具有多重目的和动机,这也是在特定历史阶段,中美官方开展农业科技交流被时代烙印的基本性质和特征。
Viceroy Chang Chi-Tung is a representative official in favor of westernization in late Qing Dynasty. He established Hu-Peh Agricultural School, and invited foreign instructors to work in it. He also in- troduced some foreign plants, and these practices did improve China＇s agriculture in modem history, to some degree. Gerow D. Brill, as the earliest foreign instructor employed by Viceroy Chang, has worked in China for around three years, and may be named as one of the earliest persons involved in Sino-US formal exchanges in agricultural science and technology, in China＇s modem history. By introducing some foreign varieties, books and tools in agriculture into China, Brill did some contribution to the communication of advanced agricultural science and technology to Chinese people. He is also one of the key persons, establishing Hu-Peh Agricultural School, which is another valuable contribution to China＇s agricultural education in its initial development. Nevertheless, based on some historical materials just found, it is presumed that Brill＇ s trip to China, with mul- tiple motivations, was closely related to his historical background. Such feature may be common to all the ac- tivities of Sino-US formal exchanges in agricultural science and technology at that time.
出处
《中国农史》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第5期36-48,共13页
Agricultural History of China
基金
国家留学基金委青年骨干教师研修项目(201606855040)资助
关键词
布里尔
张之洞
湖北
农务学堂
Brill
Chang Chi-Tung
Hu-Peh
Agricultural School
