太平天国运动发生在鸦片战争以后中西文化交汇的时代里,它的成功与失败都与这个巨大的社会背景有着密切的联系。在某种意义上,太平天国运动是近代早期中西文化交流的产物,是中国人实行中西文化结合的首次尝试。洪秀全是在一本宣传基督教的小册子《劝世良言》中受到启发,把西方基督教义与中国儒家的大 The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement took place in the era of the convergence of Chinese and Western cultures after the Opium War. Its successes and failures are closely linked with this huge social background. In a sense, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was a product of the early modern cultural exchanges between China and the West and was the first attempt by the Chinese people to integrate Chinese and Western cultures. Hong Xiuquan was inspired in a pamphlet propagating Christianity, “Proposing Good Words,” which combines Western Christianity with Chinese Confucianism.