Among these 120 children, the oldest 16 years old, the youngest 10 years old, and the average age 12 years old. Among them, there are 84 people in Guangdong, 2 1 person in Jiangsu, 8 people in Zhejiang, 4 people in Anhui, 2 people in Fujian and 0/person in Shandong.
When these students came to the United States, they quickly showed the world the intelligence and excellence of China people. They learned English at an amazing speed and became the best students in their school, so that President Grant of the United States specially met them.
From 1880 to 120, more than 100 were admitted to American universities, including 22 from Yale University, 8 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 from Columbia University and Harvard University 1 person.
However, because these students are still children in the United States, they are easily influenced by the surrounding environment.
Therefore, after more than ten years of experience, these children have not only learned American technology and culture, but also exposed them to bourgeois enlightenment, so that many of them are disgusted with feudal etiquette such as kneeling and kowtowing, and some even quietly cut off their braids and tied them with fake braids when they want to see discipline.
What they did made Wu Zideng, the director of international students, very angry, so he played at the Prime Minister's yamen, urging the Qing government to take measures to withdraw students studying in the United States.
So in the summer of 188 1, the young children studying in the United States were ruthlessly interrupted and recalled to China in three batches. ? At that time, except those who died prematurely and wanted to stay in the United States and refused to return home, * * * 94 children returned home.
After returning to China, most of these people have made great contributions to the modernization of China, including 9 leaders of industrial and mining enterprises, 6 engineers, 3 railway directors, 1 president of Tsinghua University, 1 president of Beiyang University, 1 foreign minister, 1 deputy foreign minister and 1 ambassador abroad.
Among these people, the most famous figures should be these two people: Zhan Tianyou and Tang.
Zhan Tianyou: As the first chief railway engineer in China, he should be familiar to most people in China.
Zhan Tianyou was one of the first children to study in the United States. Later, he was admitted to the Civil Engineering Department of Yale University, majoring in railway engineering. After returning to China, he was sent to Fuzhou Shipping Bureau to learn to drive naval vessels, with excellent results and five military exploits.
Three years later, Zhan Tianyou was transferred to the post-secondary school of Fuzhou Shipping Bureau to teach, and was awarded the Five-product Top Wear Award by the Qing government for his outstanding teaching. Soon, at the invitation of Zhang Zhidong, he returned to Guangdong and taught foreign languages in the Guangdong erudite museum. 1888 was introduced to Tianjin Railway Bureau as an engineer, engaged in track-laying project of Tangjin Railway.
Since then, Zhan Tianyou has made great contributions to the development of China's railway industry, among which the most dazzling achievement is from 1905 to 1909. He successfully presided over the design and construction of the first railway in China: the Jing-Zhang Railway, from which Zhan Tianyou is also called? Father of China Railway? And then what? Father of modern engineering in China? .
Tang: As the first president of Shandong University and the first cabinet prime minister of the Republic of China, Tang is also a famous figure in history. Many people should have heard of him.
Tang was the third group of children to study in the United States, and later went to Columbia University to study. 188 1 After returning to China, he was sent to North Korea to help with customs affairs, thus becoming close friends with Yuan Shikai stationed in North Korea.
19 1 1 After the Wuchang Uprising, Tang served as the plenipotentiary of Yuan Shikai's cabinet. 19 1 1 At the end of the year, talks and negotiations were started with Wu, the plenipotentiary of the People's Army, and an armistice agreement was reached between Hubei, Shaanxi, Anhui, the Soviet Union and Fengtian. Later, after Yuan Shikai became the interim president, he became the first Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty.
Later, Tang was dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's claim to the throne, so they broke up and joined Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary team. After the establishment of Nanjing National Government, Tang was appointed as a member of the Central Supervision Committee of China Kuomintang and a member of the National Government. After the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he was assassinated. Some people suspect that it was stabbed by the Japanese, while others suspect that it was done by Kuomintang agents. As for the truth, there is no way to know.
Finally, in addition to Zhan Tianyou and Tang, there are actually many celebrities among these students, such as the first president of Tsinghua, the first China writer who published books in the United States, Liang Ruhao, Cai Tingkan, founder of Jiaotong University, and Liang Dunyan, foreign minister of the Qing government.