This is how Chiang Meng-lin, an educator of the early Republican era and the 19th president of Beijing University, described one key reform of the late Qing dynasty in his autobiography, entitled Western Tide.
民初教育家、北大第十九任校長蔣夢麟在其自傳《西潮》中，為清末變法維新下了這樣的註解。