甲午战争后,西方列强打开中国的西南大门,广西逐渐沦为殖民地和半殖民地。广西知识分子的开始觉醒,寻求救亡图存的道路。他们支持维新变,批评时政,传播了资产阶级新文化、新思想,是广西近代史上的思想解放的发端。 After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, western powers opened the door to China’s southwest and Guangxi gradually became a colony and a semi-colonial one. Guangxi intellectuals began to awaken and seek the path of saving the nation. They support the reform and change, criticize the current politics and spread the bourgeois new culture and new ideas, which are the origins of the ideological liberation in the modern history of Guangxi.