The Gentry of Hunan Province and the Educational Reform in Late Qing Dynasty

The new policy practiced in late Qing Dynasty gives rise to the emergence of multiple new occupations in modern Chinese society,which challenges severely the traditional educational system and therefore triggers off a campaign for abandoning the imperial examination system,establishing schools and new learning is advocated.This campaign gives impetus to the transformation of education from the imperial examination system to school learning system.In the process of transformation,the gentry of Hunan,just as those throughout the country,are playing a major role in educational reform and begin to possess new cultural capital.In spite of all these,their different expectations of this reform cause some conflicts both between restoring the old system and carrying out innovation,and between changing the form of education and changing the system of it.