AI导读
核心看点
- 中国首位耶鲁毕业生容闳的英文自传，见证晚清百年巨变。
- 详述促成幼童留美计划始末，展现“中体西用”下的艰难探索。
- 记录与曾国藩等名臣交往，折射早期留学生“西学东渐”心路。
适合谁读
- 对晚清历史、洋务运动及中美文化交流感兴趣的读者。
- 留学生群体，尤其是关注教育变革与个人成长历程的学子。
- 喜欢阅读人物传记、回忆录及近代思想史研究的爱好者。
读前提醒
- 原著为英文，中文版多为文言或半文白，需适应特定语体风格。
- 作者视角独特，兼具中西文化背景，评价历史人物时带有个人情感。
- 建议结合晚清历史背景阅读，以更好理解其理想与现实的冲突。
读者共识
- 容闳爱国情怀真挚感人，其“己欲立而立人”的教育理想令人敬佩。
- 岳麓书社版本性价比高，印刷精良，是了解近代史的优秀入门读物。
- 虽对部分政治人物评价显主观，但作为历史亲历者记录极具史料价值。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Before we were fairly out of the "Golden Gate," we were treated every day with salted mackerel, which I took to be the daily and fashionable dish of Nantucket. The cook we had made matters worse, as he did not seem to know his business and was no doubt picked up in San Francisco just to fill the vac"
- "一八七五年赴美留学的幼童之一梁丕旭（诚），和全体幼童一道被撤回国后，于一八八二年三月六日从天津写给美国朋友Shaw一封信。信中叙说他回国后所受的待遇和苦恼道： 我们回到中国后，真的感到失望和沮丧。苛刻的待遇使我难以形容。……十月六日，我们返抵中国，到达上海，乘独轮车去上海内城，被送往一个长年封闭的潮湿的旧楼房中。…中国官吏靠贪污为生，层层克扣，（给我们的补助和食宿费用）转到我们时，已经只剩下极少的数目。几位同学已在那大楼中病倒，因此疟疾立刻流行起来。........ 高级官员给我们两次考试。他们之中只有一两位懂英文。…十ー月ニ日，我们一行九人来到这所海军学校，是因为考试官党得我们最适合学海军，"
- "我决定使中国的下一辈人享受与我同样的教育。"
- "我最不喜欢数学，尤其讨厌微积分，我认为它对心灵陶冶为益甚少，也可以说丝毫无益，因此在二年级时，这门课我时常不及格。"
- "1846年出国以前就没有很好的汉语基础，仅仅读过四年书，而要在这四年内完全掌握汉文，一般来说时间是太短了。"
- "尽管还有些结结巴巴。"
- "In my despondency, I often wished I had never been educated, as education had unmistakably enlarged my mental and moral horizon, and revealed to me responsibilities which sealed eye of ignorance can never see, and sufferings and wrongs of humanity to which an uncultivated and callous nature and can "
- "I myself began to think I was too mercurial to accomplish anything substantial, or that I was too dreamy to be practical or too proud to succeed in life. But in a strenuous life one needs to be a dreamer in order to accomplish possibilities. We are not called into being simply to drudge for an anima"
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