ㄏ本文旨在探討清中葉儒者對基督宗教及西學的態度。學界一般認為十九世紀四十年代以前的主流儒者因其儒學中心思想與對訓詁考證的沉溺而拒絕理解西方的宗教與知識。然而，本文以為儒者對西方思想的排斥和「邊緣化」並非武斷和非理性的因素致成，而是經過了仔細的審視。尤為重要的是，基督宗教和西學是被精於政治和學術的精英所排斥，他們本身熱衷於政治改革，亦於「經世」之學耗時甚多，實非無知小儒。本文以兩名重要儒士賀長齡及魏源所書《皇朝經世文編》為中心，從其編撰取向及內部梳理當時主流精英對西方知識的理解及其終遭邊緣化的歷程。最後，本文將嘗試解釋十九世紀初期基督宗教與西學的邊緣化及評析此一現象於十九世紀中國文化及思想史的重要性。

This paper aims at exploring how Confucians of the mid- Qing era viewed Christianity and Western learning. It is widely accepted that the mainstream Confucians before 1840s refused to understand Western religion and learnings because of their steadfast Confucian-centrism or over-emphasis on studying the philology of Confucian classics. However, the rejection or marginalization of Western knowledge was evidently formed in the wake of careful scrutiny instead of predetermined by arbitrary or irrational factors. Significantly, Christianity and Western learning were marginalized by political and academic elites who were active in political reform and were well versed in the art of governance. Our discussion would focus on Huangchao Jingshi Wenbian, or the Collected writings on statecraft from the Qing dynasty, which was compiled by two influential scholarbureaucrats, He Changling and Wei Yuan. The paper would illustrate how mainstream elites understood Western knowledge and eventually decided to marginalize them through the study of the compilation preference and the articles collected. In the last part, we will examine the marginalization of Western knowledge in early 19th century as reflected in Huangchao Jingshi Wenbian and evaluate the importance of this phenomenon to the 19th century cultural and intellectual history of China.