Charts Western influence and national development. Beginning with the mid-19th century, when China encountered the West and began to enter the modern age, this

Presents a survey of the aims, curricula, and textbooks used in China from 1860-1930 to give a hint to the mental attitudes of that next generation.

Briefly reviews the educational legacy of imperial China, then traces the movement for private education from its beginning in the middle of the 19th century to