The Study Of The College Education In Tung-chih Years

The college education in the late Qing dynasty, not only there are many internal problems, but also we must bear dangers from the war. For example, teaching oversight, funding shortage and leaned heavily of school. The predicament had been relieved and appeared renascent atmosphere in T'ung-chih years (1861-1875).In the process of suppressing the peasant uprisings, a lot of provincial college educations had been recovered and newly developed by Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang and so on in the southeast and the northwest. At the same time, many provincial colleges are newly constructed by Zhang Zhidong, Xu Zhenhui and so forth in the southwest and in northwest. A new upsurge in college construction is in the making throughout the country by public officials at all levels. And the college in Hebei was founded with the background of rebuilding and setting up colleges.It is important to note that there were not only provincial colleges but matricial colleges. High-ranking officials and matricial officials participate in the cause. Of course, the government officials and other officials will cooperate in the process. For instance, they prepare to construct Zunjing College in Sichuan province.The ravage of college education in the late Qing dynasty were renewed and developed in the 15 years. The situation had been turned around for the better. As an important part of the TongGuang restoration, colleges made a small foreshadowing in climax for the emperor of Guangxu period.