Introduction of Westernization School
Westernization is a political faction gradually formed and expanded within the ruling class after the Second Opium War, especially in the process of suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. At that time, the main representative of Westernization School was Prince Gong in the late Qing Dynasty. The Manchu officials represented are Han officials represented by Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo and Zhang Zhidong. At first, the Westernization School took self-improvement as its slogan, and in the 1970s, it put forward the slogan of seeking wealth. The Westernization Movement accumulated production experience for modern enterprises in China, cultivated technical strength, objectively promoted the emergence and development of Chinese national capitalism, and paved the way for China's modernization. However, the thought of Westernization School has great limitations. As the Westernization School is a political faction differentiated from the landlord class, it has the characteristics of the landlord class. Learning from the west is limited to the military and management fields, and does not involve political system reform. Its fundamental purpose is to maintain the feudal rule of the Qing dynasty, and at the same time adopt an exclusive attitude towards the advanced capitalist system in the west. With the failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-0/894+65438, the reform movement initiated by the Westernization School finally went bankrupt. Please adopt! ! !