The College Of Chinese Culture And Modern GuoXue's Education

It was since the year of 1840 that the western culture kept landing on China, and the fighting between the Chinese traditional Culture and the Western Culture never stopped and became sharper and sharper, and during the time of the end of Qing dynasty and the beginning of The Republic of China, especially in the course of The New Culture Movement, the Chinese Traditional Culture was seriously beaten by The Western Culture and it's representations of China so-called the Radicals. But the Radicals thought that the Chinese Traditional Culture was worth studying just as the dissecting specimen, at the same time, the Conservatives thought that the Chinese Traditional Culture was meaningful as truth. The view of the two parties even held opposite views on the two type of cultures, but they all agreed that the Chinese Traditional Culture was worth studying and educating. all kinds of colleges or schools or departments in universities were established for Guoxue education.Of all the studying and educating organizations, The College of Chinese Culture (无锡国学专修学校) was the one of the most successful ones.The College of Chinese Culture was built in the end of the year of 1920 in Wuxi in Jiangsu province, about 2 years earlier than the Guo-xue(国学) sect in Beijing University (北京大学国学门) it successfully combined the Chinese ways with the Western ones in Guoxue education ,and had got lots of good experiences and pure lessons in Chinese Traditional Culture studying and teaching. It worth thoroughly studying and summing up today.As the president of the college, Tang-Wenzhi was the soul of it, and he decided the education thought and organization and the way of Guo-xue teaching. Tang was a famous Confucian in that times, and he once was a high official in Qing dynasty. In the year of 1906,he resigned from the Qing dynasty as his mother died and from then on, he never came back. He began to carry out education for all his life. He protested that it was the very way to save Qing dynasty to develop the Chinese Traditional Culture especially Confucianism, and it was the true reason for him to resign from the Nanyang University and to establish the College of Chinese Culture.