“中学为体、西学为用”是十九世纪中后期在中国风行的一种社会思潮,也是这一时期地主阶级洋务派利用国家权力,推行学习和引进西方先进科学技术政策的指导思想。中国人学习西方并不是洋务派首倡。但洋务派通过洋务运动把自明末以来中国封建社会中萌生起来的这种思想,推进到一个新的阶段。 “Middle school as the body, Western learning for the purpose” is a kind of social trend of thought popular in China in the late 19th century. It is also the guiding ideology that the landlord class Westernization School made use of state power during this period to promote study and introduction of Western advanced science and technology policy. The Chinese are not the foremost advocates of Westernization in learning the West. However, the Westernization Movement pushed the idea initiated in the feudal society of China since the late Ming Dynasty to a new stage through the Westernization Movement.