A Study Of Li Hongzhang' Coastal Defense And Naval Education Practice

Li Hongzhang's Coastal Defense Council changing at any time, and eventuallymature. Under this comprehensive Coastal Defense guidance established of China's firstmodern navy, and created the modern system of naval education and training of newNavy personnel. Li Hongzhang played a very important role on the development ofmodern naval education. Along with research efforts of Li Hongzhang increase in recentyears, more and more people are realizing the construction of Li Hongzhang in theNavy and the Navy's historical achievements in education.This paper focus of LiHongzhang's coastal defense and naval educational practice, trying to dig out the firstChinese naval modernization of education system, and Li Hongzhang is the importanceof education in the modern navy. This article from the following aspects:First, in the context of the tumultuous late Qing Dynasty, whose as Li Hongzhangrepresented by minority open officials their coastal defense undergone tremendouschange. Li Hongzhang 's Coastal Defense from the beginning of the 1860s to theestablishment of the Northern Navy has experienced four changes, he thought of coastaldefense and constantly improve, from the original " to keep the prevent " passivedefense into "war for the defense "active defense. Li Hongzhang's coastal defenseeventually mature, and under this coastal defense the guidance of the Northern Navybegan to create. The final in 1888 established the first modern China of the NorthernNavy.Second, the sort the contents of Li Hongzhang's naval education practice. Mainlyconsists of two aspects, one is the New Schools founder of the Navy personnel training,the creation of the Naval Academy including Tianjin Naval Academy, ShandongWeihai wei Naval Academy,Lushunkou Torpedo School, Northern Port Medical School,etc.; The second is the introduction of Western education, studying the auspices ofadvanced technology, including the studied in the U.S. and studied in Europe.Again, the analysis of Li Hongzhang's Naval Education and Practice. LiHongzhang's naval educational practice training a large number of modern Navypersonnel, advanced science, technology, knowledge and ideas of Western into China,shocked the feudal autocratic culture, pioneering the field of vision of people, change people's thinking model, laid a good foundation for the future spread of Westernlearning in China, and the creation of the first government-run China Medical School,trained the first batch of China's own naval medic, promote the development of Westernmedicine in China. Li Hongzhang founded the Naval School of Education is a majorchange that traditional naval personnel educational content and selection system in thelate Qing Dynasty, creating a precedent for the modern naval education, formed the firstmodern Chinese naval education system.Finally, it should be the objective of the evaluation of Li Hongzhang's Navyeducational practices.