晚清出身留美幼童、同文馆留洋生、海军留欧生以及教会资助或自费留洋归国学生的驻外公使,虽因主修专业、留洋长短、留学方式等诸种因素的制约,知识结构存在较大差异,外交水平参差不齐,但是,经过西方近代文明的直接洗礼,相比国内传统与新式教育出身的同行,外语听说读写能力更加出众,西学知识更为全面、系统,外交综合素养更胜一筹。留学生积极投身外交,不仅极大推动了清季使臣群体的新陈嬗代,亦为民初我国外交近代化与外交官职业化的最终实现奠定坚实基础。 In the late Qing Dynasty, overseas Chinese born in the United States, overseas students living in the same culture institution, overseas Chinese students leaving the United States by the Navy, and overseas diplomats funded by the church or returned overseas students at their own expense, although constrained by various factors such as majoring in majors, long stay abroad, ways of studying abroad, and knowledge structure However, through the direct baptism of modern Western civilization, compared with their counterparts in traditional and new-style education in China, their ability to speak, read, write, speak and write in foreign languages ​​is more outstanding, and their knowledge of western learning is more comprehensive and systematic. Diplomacy Comprehensive literacy superior. The active participation of foreign students in diplomacy not only greatly promoted the new evolution of the envoys in the Qing Dynasty, but also laid a solid foundation for the final realization of diplomatic modernization and the professionalization of diplomats in the early years of the Republic of China.