郭嵩焘是洋务运动时期的先行者,他在究知欧美详情的基础上,顺应世界发展的趋势,主张仿效西方政治、经济、外交等制度,以求中国富强。按此主张实践,其结果必将使封建专制的中国朝着资本主义方向转变,这是郭嵩焘的学习西方主张根本不同于地主阶级洋务派之处。也正因为此,他不仅生前饱受世人唾骂赍志而没,死后还难逃悠悠之口的聚河丛骂,酿成中国历史上的一个奇异的悲剧。郭嵩焘是中国近代杰出的政治家、思想家和外交家,亦是一位孤独的先行者。他通过“读书观史”和对西方的考察,从对 Guo Songtao was a forerunner of the Westernization Movement. Based on the details of Europe and the United States, Guo Songtai followed the trend of world development and advocated imitating the political, economic and diplomatic systems of the West in order to make China prosperous and prosperous. According to this, practice will result in the transformation of the feudal autocratic China toward capitalism. This is what Guo Songtao’s study of Western ideas is fundamentally different from that of the landlord class. Precisely because of this, not only did he suffer from the world during his lifetime, but he also escaped from the river of polygamy after his death, resulting in a singular tragedy in Chinese history. Guo Songtao, an outstanding politician, thinker and diplomat in modern China, is also a lonely pioneer. He passed the “History of Reading Studies” and the investigation of the West, from right