鸦片战争使中国出现了一批睁眼看世界的先进人物,那个时期的中国,产生了两部具有划时代意义的地理著作,一是魏源的《海国图志》,一是徐继畲的《瀛环志略》。美国第42任总统克林顿1998年6月29日在北京大学的演讲中,有这么一段话:“从我在华盛顿特区所住的白宫往窗外眺望, In the Opium War, a group of advanced people with eyes open to the world appeared in China. During that period, China produced two epoch-making geographical works. One was Wei Yuan’s ”Illustrated Overseas Country“, the other was ” “. In his speech at Peking University on June 29, 1998, the 42nd President of the United States, Clinton made the following remark: ”Looking out of the window from the White House where I lived in Washington, DC,