Heeding the warnings: Deng Huaxi and Zheng Guanying’s Shengshi weiyan

IF 0.1 4区 历史学 Q4 HISTORY Journal of Modern Chinese History Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17535654.2020.1763669
Ying-kit Chan
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ABSTRACT This article establishes a link between Qing-dynasty official Deng Huaxi (1826–1916) and comprador Zheng Guanying’s (1842–1922) political treatise Shengshi weiyan (Warnings to a Prosperous Age). It suggests that Deng Huaxi’s reforms as provincial governor of Anhui and Guizhou were inspired by Shengshi weiyan. The work did not come to be applied in the 1898 Hundred Days Reform but saw at least partial success in the modernization of the two landlocked provinces. This interpretation supports the scholarly consensus that the geographical extent of the late Qing self-strengthening reforms was contingent on various persons and places and being far more focused on coastal provinces. It also suggests that the nature, pace, and scope of reforms lay at the discretion of governors-general and provincial governors, many of whom possessed few resources with which to implement them fully. The story of Deng Huaxi challenges a common idea about late Qing China: that meaningful reforms relied only on men with deep political connections to the central court and access to private fortunes. It also shows how effectively messages by Zheng Guanying and other theorists could reach local administrators and leaders and how, in provinces not so dominated by conservative literati elites, Western-style reforms garnered much appeal without too much resistance.
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摘要本文将清朝官员邓华熙(1826-1916)与买办郑观应(1842-1922)的政治论著《盛世未言》联系起来。这表明邓华熙在担任安徽和贵州总督期间的改革受到了盛世未言的启发。这项工作没有在1898年的百日改革中得到应用,但至少在两个内陆省份的现代化中取得了部分成功。这种解释支持了学术界的共识,即晚清自强改革的地理范围取决于不同的人和地方,并且更多地集中在沿海省份。它还表明,改革的性质、速度和范围取决于总督和省长的自由裁量权,他们中的许多人几乎没有资源来充分实施改革。邓华熙的故事挑战了关于晚清中国的一个普遍观点:有意义的改革只依赖于与中央宫廷有着深厚政治关系并能获得私人财富的人。它还显示了郑观英和其他理论家的信息是如何有效地传达给地方行政人员和领导人的,以及在保守的文人精英不那么占主导地位的省份,西式改革是如何在没有太多阻力的情况下获得了很大的吸引力。
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