与近代中国“开眼看世界”的第一人林则徐和疾呼“师夷之长技以制夷”的魏源一样,徐继畲也是鸦片战争后主张向西方学习队伍中的一名战将。他以一部详细、完整介绍世界各国历史、地理情况的大著《瀛环志略》,与林则徐、魏源成了一个战壕里的战友。在这部书中,徐继畲推崇西方国家的选举制、议会制和立宪制,热忱赞赏华盛顿夺取天下、实行民主政治的举措—— Like Lin Wei, the first man in modern China to “open his eyes to the world,” like Wei Yuan, who scorned and “mastered the barbarians’ ability to control the barbarians,” Xu Jiyu was also a warlord who advocated studying the West after the Opium War . With a detailed and complete introduction of the history and geography of the world, he wrote “Yinghuan Zhilue” and became a comrade in the trenches with Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan. In this book, Xu Jishe respected the electoral system, parliamentary system and constitutional system in the western countries and enthusiastically praised Washington for taking over the world and implementing democratic politics -