鸦片战争以后的上海逐渐成为西学传播的中心,上海工商界在西学输入的过程中积极成长并开始向近代化迈进。他们主张学习西学,取法西人,建立自己的商人商会;与外国资本主义国家进行“商战”,以图自强、护我主权,以救“吾商”,以商立国。 Since the Opium War, Shanghai has gradually become the center of the spread of Western learning. Shanghai’s business community has been actively growing in the process of western learning and has begun to move toward modernization. They advocated studies of Western learning, taking French law and establishing their own chambers of commerce, engaging in “business wars” with foreign capitalist countries in an attempt to self-reliance and safeguarding our sovereignty in order to save “our merchants” and build our nation.