中日两国近代化殊途探因

日本和中国一样，都是被动地接受了西方文化。不同的是，日本的戊辰革命扫除了腐朽势力，以全新的面貌励精图治，奋发求强，迅速崛起；中国的太平天国战争虽然冲击了腐朽统治，但没能建立新的革命政权，只是促使清统治集团改组，旧势力仍很强大，对洋务运动投入有限，社会经济发展缓慢。可以说，明治日本发展速度快于晚清中国最根本的原因在于革命。

On the Reasons of Different Roads of Modernization in Modern China and Japan

Both of Japan and China were forced to receive the Western culture, but they walked on different roads of modernization respectively. Japan had wiped away its rotten influences in its WuChen revolution and established a new regime. They made great efforts to improving themselves, consequently emerged rapidly a s a power. In China, although the Heavenly Kingdom wars had heavily shocked the rotten rulers and led to some reorganizations in the regime, but no new type of regime had been established at that time. The old influences were still powerful. Consequently China had made insufficient effort to the Westernization Movement, which resulted in the slow social and economic development in modern China. So we can say the real fundamental reason for modern Japan's growing faster than China in later Qing Dynasty is it had a revolution