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长期以来,人们对光绪七年(1881)发生的留美幼童撤回事件的认识及评论,多依据容闳回忆录及部分李鸿章函稿的说法。对于该事件中最重要的当事人之一的陈兰彬,却因材料太少而缺乏足够的说明。新发现的陈兰彬信函证明,在该事件中,学生沾染洋习、不习中学,并不是留学事业失败的主因。留美幼童的撤留,与其说是陈兰彬、吴嘉善与容闳的理念之争,不如说是使团内部的人事纷争。
For a long time, people’s understanding and comments on the withdrawal of young children from the United States in the seven years (1881) of the Guangxu period were mostly based on the memoirs of Rong Rong and part of the Li Hongzhang’s letter. Chen Lanbin, one of the most important parties in the incident, lacks sufficient explanations due to too little material. The newly discovered letter from Chen Lanbin proves that it is not the main reason for the failure of studying abroad in the incident that students are contaminated with foreign learning and do not study in secondary schools. The withdrawal of young children from the United States is not so much a battle between Chen Lanbin and Wu Jiashan and Rong Rong as the personnel dispute within the mission.