Chinese education history
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Updated: 25 Oct 2018
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Created byAnnie Fung
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605- Start of Imperial examination2nd century BCE: invention of paper by Cai Lun1644- provincial academics
- no tuition fees
- pursuit of independent study od the classics and literature, rather than to the preparation for governance (imperial academies)1861- Self-strengthening movement
- background: lost in the First and Second Opium Wars and Sino-French War
- hired foregin teachers to teach European languages, maths, astronomy and chemistry1898- Peking University1905- imperial examinations were abolished1919- New Culture Movement
- reaction against the Chinese government's emphasis on technical knowledge with a focus on Western philosophy rather than Confucianism1949- Mandatory schooling
- Nationalist rule
- six years of priary school education1968 - mandatory schooling was extended to nine years1911- Tsinghua University1949 - Communist brought the educational system under national control
- condemned excessive study of the humanities and social sciences (deleterious to China's industrialization)
- the Chinese Academy of Sciences was set up1956 - Soviet model
- education became highly specialized (e.g. 'railway bridge construction')1990- abolishment in the Soviet model
- focus on comprehensive education in parrallel with specialised technical training
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