Composition for the first year of high school: a 1,000-word essay about Li Hongzhang

Throughout Li Hongzhang's life, there were many remarkable things, but under the imperial power system, his ambitions were not realized. This is a national and personal tragedy.

Li Hongzhang enjoys a high reputation in the eyes of the great powers. When Li Hongzhang visited the United States in 1896, an American reporter described him this way: He had a kind face, bright eyes, sparkling wisdom and humor. He never asked for anything, but he always got it. He talked to people easily and did not make people nervous... He was polite to women and loved children.

However, Li Hongzhang would not give up any opportunity to fight for the rights of Chinese immigrants in the United States. After his visit to the United States, he deliberately avoided the western United States and chose Canada as his route back home, which caused attracted the attention of American reporters and interviewed him on the matter. Li Hongzhang took the opportunity to ask the American media to help Chinese immigrants: "I hope that the American press can help Chinese immigrants. You are proud of your democracy and freedom, but is your Chinese Exclusion Act free for the Chinese?... I believe that the American press can help Chinese immigrants to cancel the Chinese Exclusion Act." Li Hongzhang also made many efforts to abolish the opium trade imposed on the Chinese. To this end, on August 27, 1894. On the same day, he met with the British Joseph G. Alexander, the executive secretary of the World Anti-Smoking Alliance - after the opium trade was banned by the British Parliamentary Bill.

Li Hongzhang was also recognized by outstanding figures of his time. For example (during the Boxer Rebellion) Zhang Zhidong, then governor of Huguang, came forward to discuss countermeasures with ministers. Beijing cannot be saved. If the Queen Mother and the Emperor are killed in the war, the central government will collapse and the country will fall into complete disorder. In order to avoid this situation, the ministers gathered together and unanimously elected Li Hongzhang as the "President" of China to preside over the overall situation.

Li Hongzhang attached great importance to Western science and sent the first batch of Chinese students to study in the United States to learn modern scientific and technological knowledge. This group of international students have been admitted to Yale and other places, and Zhan Tianyou is the representative of this group of international students. In addition, China's telegraph industry was also pioneered by this group of students. Li Hongzhang actively learns new things. Once he asked a foreign student what a "parabola" was. The young man explained it for a long time, but Li was still confused. The young man was anxious: "Peeing is a parabola!" Li suddenly realized.

Even Mr. Fairbank, an American Harvard sinologist who spent most of his life trying to deny the existence of "imperialism" in China, finally found his conscience in his later years and said something fair: "The great powers have not Part of the reason for being able to 'split China' is that China is good at using one country to contain another country." And the person who prevented the Eight-Nation Alliance from dismembering China was Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang should be responsible for the failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, because industrialized Japan and agriculturalized China were fighting, and the outcome had been decided before the war. Li Hongzhang was the most outstanding diplomat in the late Qing Dynasty. He devoted the rest of his life to China's diplomacy. In the international environment at that time, he had already done his best as a diplomat.

Li Hongzhang was born in the darkest and most turbulent era of the Qing Dynasty. Every time he "appeared" was at a time when the country's survival was in danger, and what the Qing Dynasty asked him to bear was always "the most embarrassing human situation." thing. Therefore, when the Chinese people curse and denounce him, they really “must reflect deeply on themselves” and they really must not “abandon their national responsibilities”.