晚清海关与中国近代教育的发轫

On Late Qing Customs and the Beginning of Modern Chinese Education

19世纪60年代初,以曾国藩为首的"中兴名臣"集团开展了一场旨在挽救清政府统治危机的"自强"运动。其中一项重要的举措即是创办新式学堂——开启中国近代学校教育之先河,派遣赴欧美官办留学生,发展近代新式教育。作为近代中国与欧美世界交往前沿平台的晚清海关与中国近代新式教育的兴起、发展关系密切,同时,其在客观上对中国教育近代化的发轫亦产生了不可磨灭的积极作用。

In the early 1860s, the group of the famous resurgence officials headed by Zeng guofan started a ＂self-strengthening＂ movement designed to save the rule＇ s crisis of the Qing government. One of the important measures is to establish new schools-the opening of modem school education in China, to send official students to Europe and the United States and develop the modem new education. The late Qing Customs, however, as the front platform contacting modern China with Europe and the United States is closely linked with the rise and development of the modem Chinese new education modernization. Meanwhile, this objectively produces a positive effect to the beginning of modern Chinese education.