Foreign education ahd material philosophy were embraced with the full realization of their startling potency. A decree had been promulgated abolishing their immemorial educational system of civil service examination. Schools, teaching son. subjects, sprang up by the thousand, and citing from authority we have it:
"rhe old examination stalls were razed and on some of the sites Dutldings dediented to the new learning. Many" n temple was converted "for educational purposes. By the end of Go10 "there. "were 88.190 government tehoots with 175:700. pupils." Protestant taitsion institutions, once the unpopular Fepretentatives of & new learning, we how. thronged "and" new anes" were
Mocked' to Japan, there to, study. in Students by" the thousand modern schools, nnd hundreds went Europe and. America."
There were foreigners, especially among the old timers, who bitterly deprecated the idea of dispensing foreign learning to the Chinese people, They argued, pertinaciously that, the Chinese learned all that the orelsmers knew, there would be mo need for the latter and the Chin people, with western learning, would become very arrogant and oust the foreigner. This was a subject for much debate at the time among the elders of Shanghai.
However, and in despite of such notion, In' 1908, the United States Geclared Its Intention to return a portion of its share of the Boxer Infemnity for the purpose of enabling Chinese to. study in America. Whether this step was initiated from a spirit of friendliness or from a policy of enlightened selfishness, the Consequences have been far-reaching. fs 1s to be seen to-day, in the goodwill and trade built up between the sister republics The torrential flow of Western earning gave impetus to the growth of publishing houses, of the largest being the well-known Commercial Press ut Shanghai. In this deep reformatory movement the printed word veritably was, and continues he. an Instrument of inestimable power. In the words of the great poet of dynamic action we have it whimsically expressed thus:
"But words are things, and a small drop of ink.
Falling, ike dew, upon a thought produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." would oppe Justified Japanese methods of developing That Is to say, as early as 1900 the Japanese had seen the material value of the intangible, The college is Known now as the Tung Wen College and is situated on Hungjao Road, Shanghai, not. far from Chiaotune University.
In the year, 1908, when an edict wag published from the Throne prom-Ising a convocation of parliament] in nine years, the death occurred, three months after, of the Emperor and Empress Dowager. On April 5, 1011, a four-power group of foreiga bankers concluded the Hukwanz Railway loan agreement for the construction of roads in Central China This was the originating cause of dissatisfaction and a mishandling the affair led. to fulminations and revolt. On October 10, 1908, mutiny. broke out among troops in Wuchang. which sounded. the beginning of the Revolution. City. after city was. Jcaptured from the Manchus, including Then followed the era of and Sun Yatsen. Here we have seen how finance and polities went hand in hand.
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