莫理循眼中的清末新政

莫理循是一位活跃于清末民初中国政治中心舞台、影响颇大的外国人。在清末新政时期,他以积极、乐观的态度报道中国的改革,称其把衰弱的中国带入了一个新时代。他的报道在一定程度上提升了中国在西方世界的形象,但作为一名“具有最佳英国殖民者特征”的外国人,他对新政的观察有着较大局限性。

Morrison's Review of the Xin-zheng Reforms in the Late Qing Dynasty

George Ernest Morrison was an active foreigner who had large influence on the political stage of China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.He reported and advocated the Xin-zheng Reforms carried out by the Qing government positively and optimistically during the period of the New Policy of the Late Qing Dynasty.He argued that the reform had brought the weak China into a new era.His reports lifted the image of China in the Western World to some extent.However,as an alien who was marked by the best British colonist,his observation to the New Policy had large limitations.