In the decade after the Opium War, a group of Chinese scholars began to pay close attention to the external world and compiled a number of books on foreign histories and geography. This effort, known as “opening the ...In the decade after the Opium War, a group of Chinese scholars began to pay close attention to the external world and compiled a number of books on foreign histories and geography. This effort, known as “opening the eyes to observe the world,” exposed to their compatriots a civilization widely different from theirs. It was American protestant missionaries in China who provided the literature for Chinese scholars who wrote the books that served as a window for the Chinese to understand the world. This process had a profound influence on Chinas modernization in the late Qing Dynasty.展开更多
文摘In the decade after the Opium War, a group of Chinese scholars began to pay close attention to the external world and compiled a number of books on foreign histories and geography. This effort, known as “opening the eyes to observe the world,” exposed to their compatriots a civilization widely different from theirs. It was American protestant missionaries in China who provided the literature for Chinese scholars who wrote the books that served as a window for the Chinese to understand the world. This process had a profound influence on Chinas modernization in the late Qing Dynasty.
