On Yanfu's Western Learning Path and Complex of Scholar-officials——Talk from Lun shi bian zhi ji

Yanfu is a scholar-official of transitional era,who walks between Chinese and Western Cultures.Lun shi bian zhi ji shows his foresight as the first truly scholar of comparative culture at that time.But his deep-rooted complex of scholar-officials results in the contradictions in his spiritual world through his whole life.He isn't an independent intellectual after all.