近代以来,西方列强的入侵和国内农民起义烽烟四起予以清政府沉重的打击。在内忧外患的双重压迫下,清政府被迫开始了屈辱的近代化进程。当人们将落后挨打的根源归结为空疏腐化的科考制度时,清朝统治者对科举制度进行了一系列的改革。尽管它最终没能拯救清王朝的命运,但在当时的形势下,科举制度改革本身却有着积极的意义,在客观上也加速了中国近代化的进程。 Since the modern times, the invasion by the Western powers and the peasant uprising in the country have all brought heavy blows to the Qing government. Under the dual oppression of internal and external problems, the Qing government was forced to start the process of modernization of humiliation. When people attributed the tragedy to the scientific examination system, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty carried out a series of reforms on the examination system. Although it ultimately failed to save the fate of the Qing dynasty, under the prevailing circumstances, the reform of the imperial examination system itself had a positive meaning and objectively accelerated the process of China’s modernization.