薛福成的“以夷制夷”思想是其外交思想的重要组成部分。本文从历史的角度,通过对其此种思想的形成及主要内容进行剖析,从而试图揭示出近代中国社会思想发展的必然趋势。 Xue Fu-cheng’s thinking of “controlling one country with another” is an important part of his diplomatic thinking. This article tries to reveal the inevitable trend of the development of social thoughts in modern China through the analysis of the formation and main contents of this kind of thoughts from the perspective of history.