十七、十八世纪,是欧洲社会大转型、思想大变革的时代,中国文化的西傅以及由此兴起的早期汉学,在一定程度上参与了这场思想变革。德国学者巴耶尔(Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer,1694-1738)是十八世纪欧洲最伟大的汉学先驱之一。他曾经仔细研究过米勒、门泽尔等人的中国学成就②,他的主要兴趣也是探讨中国文字的结构系统。他还研究过中 In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was an era of great social transformation and great change in European society. The western tradition of Chinese culture and the early Sinology that emerged from it were partly involved in this ideological revolution. The German scholar Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer (1694-1738) was one of the greatest European pioneers of Sinology in the eighteenth century. He had carefully studied the achievements of Chinese studies by Miller and Menzel, and his main interest was also in the structural system of Chinese writing. He also studied