在20世纪初叶对中国传统文化进行清算的浪潮中,大概没有哪一个学门的遭际曾经像经学那样臭名昭著、为人唾弃的了。那时的经学,诚如周予同所说,已经成了一具“僵尸”。但晚清的重大政治运动曾经利用过经学,这是一个不争的事实,康有为、梁启超、章太炎等一批人之所以学名昭著,能够成为辛亥前“把握着思想界的权 In the tide of liquidating Chinese traditional culture in the early twentieth century, probably none of the scholarship was infamous and devoid of humanity. The classics at that time, as Zhou Yu-tong said, has become a ”zombie". However, it was an indisputable fact that a large number of people in the late Qing Dynasty, such as Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and Zhang Taiyan, had learned a great deal before they could become the founding members of the Xinhai Revolution.