English Correspondence Education Of The Modern Private-owned Publishing Institutions:1915-1946

With the background of Chinese social transform in Modern period and communicating between Chinese and western culture,the correspondence school was build officially by the Commercial Press in march 3th,1915.English course was set up first in the Commerical Press Correspondence School,which is the first special correspondence school in Chinese history.The correspondence school is not only the prelude of correspondence education in modern China,but also means the beginning of English correspondence education.The whole school level of the Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Bookstore Correspondence School reached the leading position in shanghai and even in the whole China area.In the decades of correspondence education teaching career,all the three correspondence schools had obtained the remarkable effect and social benefit,which took a very important position in the modern history of Chinese correspondence education and long-distiance education in China.In all the majors of which the three correspondence schools set up,especially the achievement of English course was the most attracting people's eyes,which had the biggest school size,the longest time of school running,the most number of graduate students,the best reputation of school running,the best social benefit.The Commercial Press first imported the new system of open style education from Europe and USA,this kind of education style was not subject to regional restrictions and broke the barriers of time and space,and it showed a very strong vitality and radiation.Modern private-owned publishing institutions engaged in English correspondence teaching for decades,these institutions had trained more than 60000 English professional people for the industry,business,education,politics and other fields in the society,who had comprehensive ability of "General English language +General social English + Business English".According to statistics,the students of the Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Bookstore Correspondence School spread over 22 provinces and 5 court jurisdiction throughout the country and city over administrative area range.The students graduating from the above-mentioned correspondence schools nearly spread over China in many profesional fields.Depending on their advantage of English language,the graduates made a great contribution for promoting Chinese modernization.Only from the perspective of the number of students and students distribution,the school running achievement of the Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Correspondence School were already very outstanding.More valuable thing was that the Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Bookstore Correspondence School took this new-typed open education system originating from American into the area of Chinese English education,barely copied the quality correspondence teaching education system under the background of high occupation education simply,with the background of the transform in modern China and the transform of period,not only investigating social development of the Republic of China and the actual needs of the masses,but also making reasonable abandoning and localization of innovation.The Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Correspondence School always adhered to the dual-track teaching system of both academic education and non-academic,highlighting the school running characteristic of school education and professional education;Dynamics to set up the course system,and strive to the educational system,educational level,forms of diversity and diversity,in order to better meet the demand of individuation,differentiation of different social groups.If we put history trajectory of the Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Bookstore Correspondence School into a line,compared to the latter with the former,we can find out that they not only have reference and inheritance,but also have transcendence and innovation.The English correspondence education system revealed a marked characteristic which full of more flexible,more elastic,more local characteristics.The three private-owned publishing industry town set off each other,complement each other,strongly promoting the scientific English correspondence education in modern China and the development of the localization process.Before the late Qing dynasty,the most essential feature in the change of Chinese traditional education was practical,democratic,scientific and open,this was also the basic connotation of education modernization.Correspondence education was born in modern China,and obtained certain development,this major education event itself was a important symbol of the transformation of Chinese education from the traditional to the modern.Because it effectively relieved the limited resources of school education and social actual demand contradiction between supply and demand of the people,giving another way to be accepted system school education and promoting cultural quality for the majority of lower social people.There is no doubt that only from English correspondence education development,the Commercial Press,Zhonghua Book Company,Kaiming Correspondence School which were different from the other traditional education system,their open remote English education played an important driving role in the development of modernization in China.Early in the Republic of China,this correspondence education system firstly introduced by the Commercial Press into Chinese English education area was not been accepted by government agencies.Since then,with the influence of English correspondence education practice by the modern private publishing institutions,Shanghai Education Bureau in August 1931,the National Government in July 1943,published the management rules and regulations respectively for correspondence school.At this point,the system first introduced by the Commercial Press into Chinese English education area,through 25 years of tortuous development,finally had a position in China education management system,finally entered the Republic of China normal universities,developed with ordinary schools at the same time,and had been vigorously popularized.Thus,the correspondence education system could be developed and spread in the public of China,and the modern private publishing institutions engaged in English correspondence education practice did a great help.The above-mentioned three correspondence Schools not only provided highly targeted English correspondence education for more than thousands of people on the job position,effectively promoted the English quality of citizen in every field in society,speed up the spread of western culture in China,but also input a large number of highly qualified foreign language talents for the society,strongly promoted the development of the industry and economy of the Republic of China,and promoted the transformation of the Republic of China.The modern private-owned publishing institutions set up English correspondence education for a long time,and accumulated much more rich experience,which contains a certain education pattern.The education pattern has important inspiration and reference significance for today's higher foreign language correspondence education,and adult education career.Not only like this,through long-distance English correspondence education,the modern private-owned publishing institutions promoted the development of the publishing industry itself,which is also of important value for today's publishing culture field.