Hui Press And Huis Education In The Late Qing Dynasty And The Republic Of China

In the Late Qing dynasty, with the introduction of Western Learning To The East, newspaper appeared on the Chinese historical stage as an important medium for the dissemination of cultural and ideological exchange as well as social information, and become an important force for promoting social change in Modern China. At the same time, since the Opium War, regarding the defeat of China in fighting against the Western powers for several times, many patriots come to the conclusion that educational backwardness is one of the main causes, therefore they proposed the solution of "Saving the nation by education". Under such circumstance, the Hui Intellectuals also took an active part in the trend of the times in both.In the late Qing dynasty, The Hui traditional Church Education System has been severely can not meet the needs of the times, and has become a major obstacle for the advancement of Hui People. Many Hui people of insight have been fully aware of this point. Meanwhile, the rise of Hui press exactly provide a platform for the discussion of educational reform. Through this platform, Hui intellectuals around how to reform the traditional education to meet the demands of a new age, made a series of discussions and appeals.During the discussion, backward status of Hui education and malpractices of the traditional educational system were firstly revealed by Hui press, hoping to evoke People’s awareness of the urgency of educational reform. After the new Huis education Faltering started, the central topic of discussion turned to the specific measures of development of Huis education, and then aroused a series of educational development ideas and suggestions, Objectively throwing light upon the new education of Hui people. According to the status of educational development of Hui people and problems exposed in the process of Educational development in different periods, the discussion of Huis education in the Hui press showed stage characteristics, which we believe can be classified into three periods:the Late Qing and the Early Republican China; the Nanjing National Government set up to the outbreak of war; the outbreak of Anti-Japanese War to the establishment of new China.Hui press devoted not only to the revelation of the Backward status of Huis Education, but also play an important role in calling on the general public to make contributions to the development of Huis education. In short, Hui intellectuals’discussion on the Huis Education in the period of late Qing and the Republic of China, is a cultural consciousness movement Under the specific historical background, is the Concrete embodiment of modern Chinese national salvation movement drive on the Hui people.