在世界近代史上,当一些落后地区受到外来文化的强大影响或宰制时,往往引发民族意识的觉醒并由此导致民族文化思潮的激荡,这是为数颇多近代化民族国家形成过程中的常见现象。在中国,中体西用论的产生,乃是洋务派开明人士及早期维新派人士在自强的目的下,欲援引西学又不欲有背传统夷夏观的两难抉择中,既要对顽固派的抨击做出解释,又要使自己对传统文化的信念保持平衡,所做出的一种文化辩解论式。正是在此两难抉择的左右辩解中,迎来中国文化近代化的序幕。 In the modern history of the world, when some backward areas were strongly influenced or dominated by foreign cultures, they often triggered the awakening of national consciousness and the consequent agitation of the trend of national culture, which was common in the formation of many modern nation states phenomenon. In China, the emergence of the doctrine of Western China and Westernism was a dilemma between the open-minded and the early reformers of the Westernization Movement under self-strengthening purposes and the dilemma of trying to invoke Western learning and not wanting to have a traditional view of justice and freedom. Criticism to make an explanation, but also to make their faith in traditional culture to maintain balance, made by a cultural argument. It is in the justification around this dilemma that usher in the prelude to the modernization of Chinese culture.