郭嵩焘是我国近代第一位驻西方的外交公使。鸦片战争之后,在与西方诸国交往的过程中,他提出了许多很有见地的外交思想,包括和戎、以理制胜、以礼待人、平等交往、学习西方、求实轻名等,这些思想充分显示了郭嵩焘的理性外交思维,在清王朝保守封闭的环境中,他的外交思想具有鲜明的时代进步性。 Guo Songtao was the first diplomatic envoy to the West in modern China. After the Opium War, he formulated many very insightful diplomatic ideas during his contacts with the West. These ideas include winning the war with justice, courtesy of people, equal contacts, learning the West, It fully shows Guo Songtao’s rational diplomatic thinking. In the conservative and closed environment of the Qing Dynasty, his diplomatic thinking has a distinctive time progressiveness.