Officials Training Trend and Corresponding Enlightenment in Late Qing Dynasty

Abstract

The officials training trend in late Qing Dynasty was started in the westernization movement period, and primarily developed in Wuxu Reform period, culminated in the earlier stage of new policies movement in latter Qing Dynasty, and gradually declined after 1906. It is necessary to think about the relations between the officials training in late Qing Dynasty and the enlightenment in Modern China. Under the special Chinese national conditions, it is one of the feasible choices for the enlightenment to promote the of the public by improving the of the officials. Exercising government depends on winning the support of the The late Qing Dynasty suffered from domestic strife and foreign aggression, and as the parents of the public, the officials was the savior of the public. However, the ignorant and conservative feudal official groups can not undertake the heavy responsibility of saving the nation and relieve the difficulties. Therefore, officials training and develop the officials' intelligence emerged.