Western Input and the Late Qing Classical New Change:A Cultural Interpretatio of "Journey to the West" Guo Songtao Diplomatic Diary

Literature culture and classical Chinese speech interaction in the late Qing has undergone profound fission.As a classical variable wind change blair diary was specially favored by the late Qing Tongcheng school.As the representative of Tongcheng schoolGuo Songtao both classical masters and high-ranking officials and foreign affairs is the first imperial envoy.His diplomatic diary Journey to the west amplifying and expanding classical Chinese substictuted the Western knowledge and ideas for the Confucian philosophy and Neo-Confuican-ism Because of being real rational elegant thoughtful and readable the diary with heavy cluture meaning shocked the late Qing Empire.However Guo Songtao suffered misfortune because of it and tired for lonely consiouseness.