Missionaries And The Late Qing Dynasty Female School

The relationships between the occidental countries and modern China are primarily the relations of invasion and China's being intruded. The activities of the occidental missionaries are carried out in this situation in China. How to correctly think of the relations between the missionaries and the girl schools in the later Qing dynasty is greatly helpful to let us know more about the China's learning from the occidental countries and the process of China's shifting from tradition to modernization. This paper is composed of four parts that discuss the relations between the missionaries and the girl schools in the later Qing dynasty. The first part primarily demonstrates the Christian schools for girls that are the earliest girl schools set up by the missionaries in the later Qing dynasty as well as the earliest course of the women studying in the foreign countries. In this part it is pointed out that the activities of the missionaries propagating girl schools and setting up Christian schools for girl broke though the feudalistic educational system of China . At the same time, these literary activities are in accordance with the tendency of the era The second part display the activities of the missionaries by debating the intellectuals'thoughts of the girl schools and their practices of setting up the girls schools .In the second part a conclusion is drown that the missionaries play a very important role in the generation of the intellectuals'thoughts of girl schools and the rise of girl schools established by Chinese people. The third part demonstrates the new stage of the development of the girl schools in the later Qing dynasty. The new stage include that the girl schools win their legal status and the missionaries set up the Christian universities for girls. This part disputes the relation between Chinese' establishing the girl schools and the missionaries'setting up the Christian schools for girls. The effects of the missionaries'setting up the Christian universities for girls on the perfection of the modern educational system of China is proved in a certain degree. The fourth part evaluates the importance and the historic limitations of the rise of the girl schools in the Qing dynasty . This part disclose the binary property of the social influence of the missionaries and their Christian schools for girls: invasion and propagation of the occidental cultures.