“西学东渐”一词最初见于容闳1915年出版的英文传记中译本《西学东渐记》,后被用来泛指晚清以来现代西方文化思想在中国传播盛行的历史过程。历史上,西方学术思想传入中国虽发端于明末清初西方基督教的传入, The term “Eastward Learning of Western Learning” was originally seen in the translated Chinese translation of the Western Learning in 1915 by Rong Yong, and was later used to refer to the historical process of the spread of modern Western cultural ideas in China since the late Qing dynasty. Historically, the introduction of Western academic thought into China came from Western Christianity in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty,