On Zeng Guofan's Ideas of Administration

The paper makes an objective analysis of Zeng Guofan's ideas of administration.The positive aspects of Zeng Guofan's ideas are as follows:First,Zeng Guofan's ideas of administration represent the academic trend of the late Qing Dynasty,which have effects at that time and later.Second,Mr.Zeng's ideas of administration offer ideological basis and theoretical preparation for the Westenization Movement.Finally,Zeng Goufan's ideas of administration enrich the contents of CPAU of Confucianism and substantiate the intensions of “inside as an sage”and “outside as an emperor”.The negative aspects of his ideas are:First,what Zeng Guofan administers-Great Qing Dynasty has already come to an end.Second,Zeng Guofan takes the Confucianism in particular,one of their schools of the Song and Ming Dynasties,for the theoretical basis of CPAU,while the Confucianism is going downhill.Finally,in the idea of the Westernization Movement that is one of the main contents of Zeng Guofan's ideas of administration,he barters away the nation.