A Study On The Late Qing Army Four-class Martial School System

Since in the 1960s, the new type of martial institutions set up one after another, because of the impact of western martial technic and the revolution of neoteric martial system. These martial schools, which obviously have the western characteristic, not only brought up a lot of persons with ability, but also made martial education overage and renovate from ancientry to neoteric. It is the basic of the establishing and consummation of neoteric martial schooling system. Army Four-class Martial school System was the tiptop achievement of late Qing dynast martial education development. Its establishing, not only pushed the development of late Qing dynast martial modernization, but also had important impact on the social structure of late Qing dynast and early China and democracy.Army Four-class Martial school System, as a complete system, studied mainly on its background, connotation, characteristic and impact. Firstly, this paper elaborates on the historical background of the Army Four-class Martial school System from Late Qing military reform and military education and the end of the Qing dynasty foreign military education on the development of three aspects. Next, it introduces the connotation of that system in detail, which reviews the authorized settings, the selecting model and the assessment criteria. Then, this thesis summarizes the characteristics of Army Four-class Martial school System. It indicates that Army Four-class Martial school System has both its advanced and backward. At last, it comments on the affection of the Army Four-class Martial institution System.