Tongwen Guan ({zh|同文舘}), or the School of Combined Learning was a government school for teaching Western languages (and later scientific subjects), founded at Beijing, China in 1862 during the late-Qing dynasty. The establishment signifies the Qing Empire, after years of reluctance, at last tried to learn about the West of their own accord. ...
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(`Interpreters College`), first institution in China for the study of Western thought and society.[1 related articles]
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