Appeals And Promotion To Western Style Education By Timothy Richard In Late Qing Dynasty

Timothy Richard is one of the many missionaries coming to China in late Qing dynasty. During the period of forty-five years in China, he translated western books, participate in political reform, founded universities, profoundly affecting the historical process of the Chinese society. He is engaged in various activities, education is one of the most important of these. He criticized the Chinese educational situation, initiated western learning, Actively call for education reform, set up Shanxi Academy, which had made an important influence on the modernization of Chinese education.Faced with the strong inertia of the system and tradition, he called repeatedly. In order to reduce the resistance, but also easy to understand and accept by the Chinese bureaucracy, He paid great attention to the strategies and methods, and made full use of China’s existing institutional system. Even so, his efforts and slight progress have instant digestion in fierce aggression and cultural collision and. But his calls for new education, after all, inspired the people’s minds, influence people’s ideas, getting more and more people accept the new education in China and development. The efforts made by Timothy Richard for the education modernization should not been ignored, His goodwill should be infirmed.The thesis fully tap the historical materials and place his education activities under the macro-background of a series of major events in the late Qing. Not only satisfied with records, but sought to explore the causes behind his activities. Grasp the link between the before and after the development and changes, in order to show Timothy Richard’s efforts and contributions on Western style education under contact and collision of culture and ideas between East and West in the late Qing Dynasty...