张謇是中国早期现代化的开拓者。因为是早期,传统文化价值观念对他的现代性探索起了极大的制约作用。他力追“西用”,而又驻足“中体”,他以欧美的器用形制和“唐虞三代”的伦理社会相嫁接,构思在南通推行现代化的理想模式。但是,这个“儒家千年王国”的现代化理想模式只是一个“乌托邦”。张謇的事业在他的价值理想激励中成长,但也在他的价值理想导引下最终归于失败。 Zhang Jian is a pioneer of China’s early modernization. Because of its early stage, traditional cultural values ​​have greatly restricted his exploration of modernity. He chased after “western use” and stopped at “the medium body”. He grasped the use of the system in Europe and the United States and the ethical society of “Three Generations of Tang Yu,” and conceived the ideal mode of implementing modernization in Nantong. However, the ideal model of modernization in this “Confucian millennial kingdom” is only a “utopia.” Zhang Jian’s career grew up in his ideal of value, but ultimately failed under his ideal of value.