“中学为体,西学为用”是晚清士人在近代西潮冲击下逐步形成的一个变革性共识,而变革的一个主要内容,就是学习西方.毛泽东指出:“要救国,只有维新,要维新,只有学习外国”.这是近代中国人得出的最后结论.的确,从这个角度看,魏源提出“师夷之长技以制夷”与“中学为体,西学为用”表达的是同一观念.进而言之,清季讲西学源出中国的士人与讲中体西用的士人也基本是一致的,他们多半都是在保持中国认同的基础上,为引进西方文化找依据.“中学为体,西学为用”可以说是晚清中国思想的主流.正如梁启超指出的:中体西用已成当时的流行语,而“张之洞最乐道之,举国以为至言”.张之洞在《劝学篇》中整合诸家之说,将其表述得最为系统.四川大学教授谢放的新著《中体西用之梦——张之洞传》(四川人民出 “The Middle School as a Body and the Western Learning as a Useful” are the consensus of a transformative society gradually formed by the late Qing scholars under the impact of the modern West China, and one of the major contents of the change is learning from the West. Mao Zedong pointed out: “To save the nation, Reform, only learning from foreign countries. ”This is the final conclusion reached by modern Chinese in this respect. Indeed, from this perspective, Wei Yuan proposed that“ long-term mastery should be based on system control ”and“ middle school as the body and western learning be used ” The same concept.In a word, the Qing Dynasty about Western scholars originated from China and Western scholars are also basically the same, most of them are based on the recognition of China, based on the introduction of Western culture to find a basis “Middle school as the body, Western learning for the use of” can be said that the mainstream of late Qing Chinese thought.As pointed out by Liang Qichao: the body of the West has become the buzzwords of the time, and “Zhang Zhidong the most entertaining, Zhang Zhidong in the ”Encouraging Learning“ in the consolidation of various said, to be the most systematic expression.Sichuan University professor Xie Fang’s new book ”in the West Dream - Zhang Zhidong Biography" (Sichuan people out