晚清关于缠足影响国家富强的争论

缠足影响国家富强是近代中国反缠足运动的主要思想依据,但晚清知识界在这一问题上存在较大的分歧.这一观念初由传教士发其端,甲午以前并未引起士人的多少关注,主要的思想交锋是在外国传教士及受其影响的中国教徒之间展开.甲午后,缠足影响国家富强的说法日渐流行,争论逐渐在中国士人间展开,特别是在反缠足运动积极开展的南方地区,争论显得尤其突出.新政时期,类似说法已非常流行.官方和民间都有很多人改变了以缠足为琐屑的观念,承认它影响了中国的富强.但争论仍在继续,并逐渐逾出南方而扩大到北方地区,发展成一场全国性的争论.

The Divergence and Polemics of Foot Binding's Influence on the Prosperity of the Country Among Intellectuals in the Late Qing Dynasty

The concept that foot binding influences the prosperity of a country is the ideological basis of the Anti-Foot Binding Movement in modern China.But in the Late Qing Dynasty,there was a huge divergence of opinions on the concept among Chinese intellectuals.This concept,initiated by missionaries,rarely attracted Chinese intellectuals' attention before 1894 while foreign missionaries and their followers were having a polemic on the concept.After 1894,the concept gradually became widespread and aroused disputes...