Restudy On Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program In1909

The Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program begain in1909.Over the next few decades,ittrained plenty of students for modern China. It’s significance will never be questioned. Also, thereare great number of researches about this issue. However, most of them represented itoversimplified on a macroscopic view.The first Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program proceeded at the first year of Xuantong. Thattime, Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu passed away when the reform of late Qingwas showing some effects. Although Chinese embarster’s efforts and permission of U. S.goverenment’s made the plan of remission of Boxer Indemnity became true, it was all decisitionof U. S. government to put this fund on sending Chinese students to America. When this newsimported to China, central departments, provincial governments and individuals show theirinterests in it. Considering proposals from many aspects, Education Bureau and Ministry ofForeign Affairs made formal plan through compromising and distributing. The result also criticizedfor recruited too much privileges by public opinion.All those phenomenon illustrated that this program has betraied it’s initial aim of trainingtalents for country. It also reflected the system reform problems of the new politics of the Late-Qing Dynasty. And the chaos of the central administrations made the incontrollable of thepolitical scene reasonable after1911.By analyzing reports at that time, the memoirs of witness and archives, the essay attempts toretell the complcated story happend in1909.