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In the history of modern education in China, the earliest new schools were all foreign language schools, which mainly trained foreign language talents, and their major was English and other major eastern and western languages. The earliest is Shi Jing Wentong Museum, which was established at 1862.

At first, the academic system was three years, majoring in foreign languages and Chinese. Later, it was changed to an eight-year program, and 1865 was changed to an institution of higher learning, and the courses were greatly increased. Zhang Deyi, a graduate of this college, published English Dialect, the first English grammar book in China, on 1895.

19 12, Nanjing Provisional Government of the Republic of China was established. In September, the Ministry of Education announced the academic system. Since then, foreign language majors have been set up in universities and specialized schools in China, among which English major is the main language major.

19 1 1 In the spring of last year, "Tsinghua School" was established in the name of Preparatory School for Studying in the United States (now Tsinghua University). The school takes American schools as the standard and English as the lingua franca. All courses except Chinese studies are taught in English.

1922 10, Shanghai University was founded by the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party at that time, with a department of English literature.

194 1 year, China founded Yan 'an University in Yan 'an. 1944 was renamed Yan' an foreign language school, with an English department and more than 60 students. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), most of them became the leaders and backbones of various departments, such as diplomacy, foreign cultural exchange, foreign language teaching and research.

1949 On the eve of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), there were 205 institutions of higher learning in China, of which 4 1 had departments of foreign literature or English literature. At that time, the number of foreign language teachers in National Central University was the largest, with 33; The number of foreign language teachers in Tsinghua University is 28; At the same time, there are 10 schools with foreign language (English) teacher departments, including Beijing Normal University.