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A Study On The Education Of Retaining In Europe During The Westernization Movement

Posted on:2015-06-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207330431999851Subject:Subject teaching
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The beginning of China’s monder history starts with The Opium War, During the two times of The Opium War, Qing Government failed twice in the war. And the control over the nation was at risk. Right under the society background like that, in order to protect the feudal rule, the government needed to start the action of self-saving.The westernization drive then appeared under the very circumstance. In the process of the westernization drive, they manufactured a series of military industry to be self-supported in the area of military. In the60s of nineteen century, with the increasing awareness of ocean protection, Qing Government established Fuzhou ship bulilding Bureau, they build newly updated styles warships in order to facilitate the power of ocean protection, embedded together with Fuzhou shiping school。Looking at the country inside, the ship career was significantly affected by two things happened in row, first the techniques was monopolized by the foreign employees, these foreign employees left the institution. Thus, foreign affairs ministers discussed actively and decided to strive opportunities, that the students from the institution can go to Europe for further learning, consequentially they wanted to alleviate the situation of the deficiency talented people in military. Seeing overseas, European had the cutting edge technique in military industry. Because foreign affairs ministers had close connection with the European countries and they were knowledgeable about the military education in Europe, these advanced techniques were the main appealing reason that Britain, France, German and those European countries became the popular destinations for students to study overseas. Additionally, with the help of the French student Giquel, they got the support of foreign governments, that all these joint factors made the students from Fuzhou shipping school study in Europe possible.Before the students were sent out, foreign affairs ministers led by Li Hongzhang、 Shen Baoszhen carefully selected the people, actively raised money and cautiously chose the China and foreign mangement. After preparation, the students were sent in four separate groups to Europe countries like Britain, France, Germany and ect. the majority of them majored in the navy driving, manufacturing, mining and so on. European schools have very strict requirements for training professional elites, which gave the Chinese students very solid professional knowledge and most of them got the internships relevant to their majors, that made them be able to combine the theory and practice together, which facilitated the integration of their majors.The students who have been studied in Europe majorly served in the China modern naval career The high-tech manufacturing industryand Education. It provided with a great many valuable talented elites to the process of China modernization, and contributed a great amount of effort for the China modernization.
Keywords/Search Tags:The westernization drive, European education, Fuzhou shipping school
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