在经世文人学习西方的呼声逐渐淡出中国社会时 ,太平天国政权再起波澜 ,刮起一股带有农民色彩的开放风。他们以“异端”宗教集合民众 ,用西方先进器物装备自己与清王朝抗衡 ,甚至按西方社会模式设计国家的发展前景。他们的开放举动是中国现代化进程中不可或缺的铺垫 As the call of the literati learning the West faded out of the Chinese society, the Taiping Heaven Regime rose into waves again, blowing an open wind of peasant color. They used the heresy religion to assemble the people, equipped themselves with Western advanced artifacts to contend with the Qing dynasty, and even designed the country’s development prospects according to Western social patterns. Their opening-up move is an indispensable forerunner in the process of China’s modernization