一个乐观主义者眼中的中国（二）

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一个乐观主义者眼中的中国（二）

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上节课我们了解到，中国在几十年里废除了很多存在了上千年的传统陋习，比如废除妇女裹脚的习俗、推翻君主专制制度、废止酷刑等等。这些着实是了不起的成就，除此之外，中国还取得了哪些成就呢？

英文原文

The opening of new schools marked the disappearance of the mechanical and exacting form of literary composition, known as the Octopartite, which had been required as the standard form in all state examinations, and for the mastery of which the best years and energies of the whole educated class of the past six centuries had been sacrificed.

These are a few of the more fundamental departures from the old tradition.

They are not merely isolated items of reform; they are indicators of fundamental changes in attitudes toward the most important phases of life.

The binding of women's feet, for example, was not merely an isolated institution of extreme cruelty and brutality, but also the clear and undeniable evidence of a general attitude toward womanhood which ten centuries of native religion and moral philosophy had failed to condemn and rectify.

The abolition of foot-binding, therefore, is not merely the passing away of an inhuman institution, but an indication of the coming of an entirely new attitude toward womanhood.

In that sense, it is veritably a moral revolution.