容闳晚年的新探索

吉首大学学报（社会科学版） ›› 2006, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (6): 68-75.

容闳晚年的新探索

（南开大学历史学院，天津南开 300071）

出版日期:2006-11-15 发布日期:2012-06-20
作者简介:李喜所（1946-），男，河北涉县人，南开大学历史学院教授，博士生导师，兼中国近现代研究所所长。

New Exploration on Rong Hong’s Late Years

(College of History,Nankai University,Tianjin 300071,China)

Online:2006-11-15 Published:2012-06-20

摘要/Abstract

摘要：容闳几乎是一位和中国近代社会前进步伐相始终的爱国人士。在鸦片战争的硝烟中赴美留学，寻求救国良方。1854年返回祖国后，致力于改造中国的进步事业。支持太平天国革命，参与洋务运动，经过18年努力促成了第一批留美幼童的派遣。后又投入维新变法运动。晚年则渐渐走上了反清革命道路，全力支持孙中山领导的南京临时政府。本文在探讨容闳转向革命的过程和原因的基础上，重点评述了容闳为辛亥革命鞠躬尽瘁的爱国情操。

关键词： 容闳, 晚年, 辛亥革命

Abstract: Rong Hong is a patriot who keeps the pace with the progress of the society in Chinese contemporary history.He went to America to seek ways to save the nation during the Opium War,and returned in the year 1854.Since then he devoted himself to Chinese progressive causes.He supported the revolution of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,took part in the Self-Strengthening Movement,and made it successfully to send the first young children to America after his 18 years’ effort.Later,he threw himself into the Constitutional Reform and Modernization of 1898.In his late years he fought against the Qing Dynasty by trying all his effort to support the Nanjing Contemporary Government led by Sun Yetsun.This paper explores the process and reasons of his devotion to revolution,and comments on his patriotic spirit of sparing no effort in the performance of his duty for the cause of the 1911 Revolution.

Key words: Rong Hong, late years, the 1911 Revolution

李喜所. 容闳晚年的新探索[J]. 吉首大学学报（社会科学版）, 2006, 27(6): 68-75.

LI Xi-Suo. New Exploration on Rong Hong’s Late Years[J]. Journal of Jishou University（Social Sciences）, 2006, 27(6): 68-75.