The earliest movement of the Chinese students dates as far back as the third century B.C. scholars voiced their quite formidable as Chin huang or the First. Emperor who built the Great Wall, buried. four hundred and sixty of them alive in Qrder to silence their criticism. Since then, the history of China has" recorded numerous" school Wements. Tu some dynasties such Sung and. Ming, even organised themselves into influent I political parties. More In 1862 a New Driving Course was made and financed by a number of foreigners of nationalities. Mr. Walter Pea ison was appointed manager of the Course the cost of which was defrayed by toll-gates. Subscriptions were levied later on the basis of $10 for pedestrians, Tls. 20 for horses and Tls. 30 for carriages. Eventually the Course was taken over in May, 1866, by the Municipal Council who undertook to keep the Road open jand in good repair for the public lof Shanghai without levying tolls. Mr. T. T. Cooper, signing himself as late Secretary of the Bubbling Well Road, then advised subscribers that they should in future pay the amount of their subscriptions to the Council. The Council asked the Management certain questions before the transfer was mad "The length of the Road from the! Horse Bazaar to the Bubbling Well The nature of repairs you think desirable to make the Thorough moderately good order in wet weather recently, in 1805, when the Manchu governnient was' about to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki after its dlefeay in the Sino-Japanese War, Kang' Vu-wei and thousands of his fellow scholars petitioned Emperor Kuang Hsu to bring about reforms and to refuse accepting humiliating peace terms, Although the treaty eas signed in spite of the petition, the movement of the scholars had won "such nation-wide sympathy that finally in 1898 the emperor ha to promote its Teaders to high ofice and adopt reform measures, Seven years Tater, in 1905, the imperial Zovernment decreed that the system of civil examination be abolished and. modern schools be established. Since that, "time, the scholars gradually' disappeared and. their Place was. gradually taken by modern Chinese. students,
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