The Western Learning into the East and the Cultural Changes of the Qing Dynasty

The chair's words The western learning into the east began in the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dy-nasty. The European missionaries brought many western things and meanwhile some knowledge such as astronomy, calendar, mathematics and others that influenced Chinese community of knowledge. In the late Qing dynasty political awareness, philosophical thoughts, cultural ideas and others besides advanced technology were introduced into China. New kind of education and translated works influenced Chinese way of living and thinking that led to asking for novelty and changes, which changed the mode of rigid and exclusive thinking and recognition. Today studies on this history should focus on its realistic mean-ing, that's to say, howto viewthe traditional Chinese culture and recent western culture and the relation-ship of Chinese and western cultures in the rising heat of“ancient Chinese knowledge”. Only in this way can we put history as a mirror and push ahead China's reform and opening up to the outside world as well as modernization.