洋务运动后期,即中法战争以后至甲午战争之前,中国出现了一批进步的知识分子.他们都主张学习西方,提出种种改革社会的方案.目前,史学界在评论这批知识分子的改革思想时,出现了不同意见.一种意见认为,这批知识分子属于民族资产阶级的早期维新派,其思想属于早期维新思想,与属于官僚买办阶级的洋务思想完全对立,没有任何相通之处;另一种意见则认为这些知识分子不是早期维新派而是洋务 Before the Westernization Movement, that is, after the Sino-French War and before the Sino-Japanese War, a group of progressive intellectuals emerged in China, all of whom advocated the study of the West and put forward various proposals for reforming the society. At present, historians comment on the reform ideas of these intellectuals In the opinion that these intellectuals belonged to the early reformists of the national bourgeoisie and their ideas belonged to the idea of ​​early rejuvenation that they were completely opposed to the Westernization ideology belonging to the bureaucratic comprador class and did not have any similarities; One opinion holds that these intellectuals are not Western ones but early adopters