Li Hong-zhang And Zhili Province's Education

Content: Nowadays, there is much deep research about Li Hongzhang, but most of it focuses on Westernization Movement and foreigh relations and so on. In fact, as a local officer, he has contributed to the modernization of China. And it should not be ignored in spite of the failure of the Sino-Japanese War. The scolars in Taiwan have done the related research and conclueded that in the end of Qing Dianasty, the modernization of Zhili is very high, and Li Hongzhang has played the essential role.The reserch about the modernization of the Zhili is a lot, but it is also necessary to do the deep research about Li's promotion about the moderniazation of the culture and education in Zhili. The original title of the essay is Li Hongzhang and the New-type School Education. Afterwards, because of the limitation of the original one, it becomes the Li Hongzhang and the Change of the Style of School Education.This essay focuses on the situation and promotion of Li Hongzhang and his staff in the development of Zhili's culture and education.The first part is the precondiction of the change of the style of school education. They are: Li enlists many scholars; the modernization of Li's concept about culture and education. After being the local capital of Zhili, Li Hongzhang payes attention to the employment of the talented persons, who particatate directly or indirectly the construction of the culture and education. This is the indemnification of the modernization of development of the culture and education in Zhili. What's more important, the culture and education concept of the Li and his staff is in the process of the modernization. That is expressed in two ways. First, they put the science to the first place. Second, they stress practical knowledge, and reform the examination system. Third, they learn from the wester and train the new-style talented person.The second part is the argumentation of the new-type school education. This concept is formed in the suggestion about the setting of foreigh studies school and further developed in 1874. Moreover, it is practiced in the military school and the military skills school. As the germination of the modernized shools, these schools are much modernized, which is expressed in the enrollment of the students, the employment of the teachers, the teaching methods and the teaching content.This essay is about the research of Li Hongzhang and his staff's construction about culture and education in Zhili, revealing their promotion of the modernization of Zhili's culture and education. The conclusion is that Li Hongzhang is the promoter of the Zhili's culture and education development in the end of Qing Dinasty and he facilitates the beginning of modernization of Zhili's culture and education.