Title: Between Tradition and Change:Hubei-Hunan Academy of Classical Learning
Abstract: Hubei-Hunan Academy of Classical learning was one that was established in Wuchang by Zhang Zhidong during transformation.Social change and the conflict and the blending of Chinese and Western cultures rendered the academy an enormous impetus,resulting in its great changes in management system,teaching method and ideology.Still it remained hovering between tradition and change: learning not familiar essays but taking official rank as the main aim,having both traditional Chinese writings and Western natural and social sciences for teaching content,blending traditional teaching method with the modern one,running the academy by using commercial fund,etc.The coexistent setup of the old and the new and the development trend of the supersession of the old by the new did express the alternative choice of the academic thinking and the political view in the late Qing Dynasty.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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