中国的林则徐和东邻日本的渡边华山处于同一个激烈变荡的转型时代,他们独具慧眼,挺身而出,试图从西方寻求救国之道,为民族振兴尽了最大努力。然而,他们效法西洋的效果却不可同日而语,对国家和民族的影响也大相径庭。渡边华山虽死,但登高一呼,语惊世人,日本人知耻后勇奋起直追,步入近代强国之林;林 Lin Zexu of China and Watanabe Huashan to the east of Japan are in the same era of fierce and volatile transition. They are discerning and come forward in an attempt to seek the salvation of the nation from the West and do their utmost to rejuvenate the nation. However, their effectiveness in emulating the West can not be compared in the same way. The impact on the country and the nation is also very different. Watanabe Huashan though dead, but ascended the call, astonish the world, the Japanese shameless courage to catch up, into the modern power of the forest; Lin