严复与伊藤博文没有机会同学李鸿章身边的西学人才毫不亚于日本的“海归”但他们只能以失败者身份参加谈判。1894年,中国甲午战败。次年3月,清廷派出以李鸿章为首的谈判代表团赴日本马关和谈。长条形的谈判桌两边,一边坐着托着长辫子的中方代表,另一边坐着早已剪去发髻留着欧美式短发的日方代表。他们是两拨彼此敌视的人。但是,他们还拥有一个共同点,那就是他们中不少人同是欧美留学生。日方代表中的欧美留学生包括55岁 Yan Fu and Ito Hirobumi have no chance of classmates Li Hongzhang around the Western talent as much as Japan’s “returnees” but they can only participate as a loser in the negotiations. In 1894, China’s Sino-Japanese defeat. In March the following year, the Qing government sent a negotiating delegation led by Li Hongzhang to Japan for the peace talks in Malaysia. On either side of the bar-shaped negotiating table, there was a Chinese delegate with long braids sitting on the other and a Japanese delegate who had cut short hair with European and American short hair. They are two people who are hostile to each other. However, they also have one thing in common: many of them are European and American students. The European and American students in the Japanese delegation include 55 years old