晚清早期改良派是19世纪70年代开始崛起的一个政治派别,其代表人物大都和洋务活动有联系,后又超越了洋务派。他们重视学习西方的先进科学技术和资产阶级革命时代的某些思想政治学说,能够顺应时代潮流,反映资产阶级的愿望和要求,为摆脱民族危机,大胆提出改革封建政治、经济、外交、文化的思想主张,为资本主义的发展呼风唤雨。还应特别指出的是,晚清早期改良派大都来自封建士大夫阶层,有的还曾经跻身于官僚行列,都受 In the early late Qing Dynasty, the reformists were a political faction that began to emerge in the 1870s. Most of its representatives were linked to the Westernization Movement and surpassed the Westernizationists. They attach importance to learning some advanced ideology and politics of the advanced science and technology in the West and bourgeois revolutionary era and are capable of following the trend of the times and reflecting the aspirations and demands of the bourgeoisie. In order to get rid of the national crisis, they boldly proposed reforms of feudal political, economic, diplomatic and cultural Thought advocates, for the development of capitalism do anything they can. What should be specially pointed out is that most of the reformists in the late Qing Dynasty came mostly from the feudal literati class, some of them once among bureaucrats,