西学
西学
Xī xué
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing); also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
Traditional: 西學
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- Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing)
- also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
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Related Words
启蒙(qǐ méng)· variant of 啟蒙|启蒙[qi3 meng2]
→以夷制夷(yǐ yí zhì yí)· to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)
→新文化运动(Xīn Wén huà Yùn dòng)· the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
→格物(gé wù)· to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学[li3 xue2]
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