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Chinese education history
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Annie Fung
⟶ Updated 25 Oct 2018 ⟶
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605- Start of Imperial examination
2nd century BCE: invention of paper by Cai Lun
1644- 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 chemistry
1898- Peking University
1905- imperial examinations were abolished
1919- New Culture Movement - reaction against the Chinese government's emphasis on technical knowledge with a focus on Western philosophy rather than Confucianism
1949- Mandatory schooling - Nationalist rule - six years of priary school education
1968 - mandatory schooling was extended to nine years
1911- Tsinghua University
1949 - 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 up
1956 - 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
