(一 )王韬是近代著名的改良主义思想家。关于其生年 ,他自己有明确的交代 ,而其去世的时间 ,则历来有多种说法 ,出入很大。陈其元在《庸闲斋笔记》中最早提出王韬在 1 862年上书太平天国后 ,即“遁入咪墨海书院以死”。此后有 1 886年说、1 890年说、1 895年说、1 896年说 (A) Wang Tao is a famous modern reformist thinker. As for his birth year, he himself has a clear account of his own time, and his time of death has always had a variety of claims, a great deal of discrepancies. Chen Qiyuan in the “Yong leisure vegetarian notes” the earliest proposed Wang Tao in 1862 after the Pacific Taiping, “escape into the Mexican Mohai College to death.” Since then there have been 1 886 said that in 1890 it was said in 1895 that in 1896 it was said