正道洵艰：“近代化”的反刍与今思——读《魏源与西学东渐——中国走向近代化的艰难历程》

追溯中国“近代性”的发生与“近代化”之艰难历程，具有反刍历史和启迪现实的双重意义。史学新著《魏源与西学东渐》，将魏源思想纳入中西方发展对比的历史坐标，诠释了中国以“西学东渐”为路径走上“近代化”、“现代化”道路的必然；同时，基于中、西双向维度上对魏源思想的透彻理解，该著以日本“近代化”历程为参照，主张超越“体用之争”．促进民族传统与外来先进文化的双向结合、双向选择。

A Really Hard and Correct Path: Historical Rumination and Present Meditation of Modernization——Reading Wei Yunan and Western Learning Advancing East Gradually——Hard Path of Cinese Modernization

It has double significances of ruminating the history and enlightening the reality to ascend the appearance of Modernity and the hare path of Modernization.The new historical book Wei Yuan and Western Learning Advancing East Gradually,which sets the thought of Wei Yuan on the historical coordinate of the contrast of the development of Chinese and Western,annotates the inevitability of Chinese Modernization by the path of Western Learning Advancing Gradually.Meanwhile,on the basis of thorough understanding of Wei Yuan's thought by the bidirectional dimensions of Chinese and Western,this book,consulting the Japanese Modernization course,alleges to surpass the "Argument of Sysem and Employment" and accelerate the bidirectional integrations and choices of national traditions and foreign advanced cultures.