Foreign Teachers And The Establishment Of New Schools In The Late Qing Dynasty

Modern education emerged from new school founded by the Westernization Faction in the late Qing Dynasty Faction. Its founding and construction shocked traditional feudal private school education, which leading to changes in the late Qing. School must have teacher. In order to be self-improvement, new schools followed the western calendar. Meanwhile, the introduction of foreign teachers solved the urgent problems of lacking teachers. Foreign teachers had an opportunity to show their ability in the stage of Chinese history, they played a special important role in the new education as pioneers.This article discussed the foreigners worked as teachers in the establishment of new schools, especially on the imperceptible change of traditional Chinese education and society atmosphere by foreign teachers in the rise of modern education in Late Qing Dynasty. The history position of foreign teachers was evaluated comprehensively and objectively in modern school education of the late Qing Dynasty. The article consists of five parts as follows:The first chapter discussed the general situation of introducing foreign teachers and the rise of new schools on the late Qing Dynasty, focusing on the reasons to hire foreign teachers but inevitable development trend of the late Qing Dynasty.The second chapter discussed the specific activities of foreign teachers in the New Schools, such as the School of Combined Learning and Fuzhou Shipping School. Meanwhile, the contribution of foreign teachers to the establishment of new schools was specially discussed.The third chapter introduced the work of missionaries as the teaching subject in new schools, which reflected the guiding role of missionaries as teachers participate in new schools in the late Qing Dynasty.Chapter IV discussed the western learning translation of foreign teachers. Meanwhile, the translation secretariats of the School of Combined Learning and Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau were introduced with an emphasis. The spread of the Western culture reflected the efforts of foreign teachers made to the development of Western culture as well as modern education. Chapter V objectively evaluated the history status of foreign teachers in the process of building new schools in the late Qing starting from culture transmission and education modernization. Meanwhile, the contributions to the modernization of Chinese education made by foreign teachers were defined.In this paper, foreign teachers in the activities of the New Schools in the Late Qing Dynasty was used as a starting point, an objective evaluation of the effects of the special groups in the New school education in social transition was made.