Education tansformation in the Late Qing Dynasty

As foreign capitalism intruded with the aid of their state's strength into Chinese society in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government more and more felt the lack of new talents. The development of modern education gradually became the consensus of social elite and the state. In the reform and the New Deal period, the state's education policy started to turn from elite education to national education in that period of the Reform Movement of 1898 and the New Deal in the previous decade. The transition of the education policy objectively made the state become the active promoter of national education and school principals. As the main body of management, the government used various means such as the extraction of tolls and so on to raise educational appropriations for promoting the development of moden education. It also aggravated problems of people's livehood, tormois, became an accompanying phenomenon in the process of social transformation that had been promoted by the state.