The Research On Educational Problems Of Offsprings Of The Huizhou Merchants' Expatriates

During the Ming-Qing dynasty,it was popular that businessmen emigrated to foreign countries and set to build up their business there.So it was the huibusinessmen.In my thesis paper,Iwill begain with analysing the solutions to the educational problems of offsprings of Huizhou merchants'expatriates, then comprehensively investigate other related educational problems. My thesis paper holds these ideas:The Huizhou merchants'expatriates provided their offspring with convenient schooling by establishing special college and compulsory education;they provided condition for their offsprings' affiliated schooling by greatly donating to the local afficial school and college;they provided facility for their offsprings'attending school and becoming a scholar-official through imperical exam by getting a business card or being a local citizen;they provided a good environment for their offsprings'study by sthengthening the family and social education.The above four points are main ways to their offsprings'education problems.Meanwhile,this kind of education has some distinctive advantages,together with inbalance on the country of the distribution of the development of education and imperical examination.the Huizhou merchants had been the main body of setting up the educational organizations in Ming-Qing dynasty through replacing scholar-officials. Educational philosophy became more open and flexible.Finally,the paper praises the positive side of the education made by those Huizhou merchants,at the same time,it also presents its relation to yhe decline of Huizhou merchants.