The current affairs school is located in Changsha, Hunan. In the winter of the 22nd year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1896), when Xiang Gentry founded Baoshan City Machine Manufacturing Company, Jiang Dejun "doubted its immediate interests, for the sake of adding the discussion of current events". The following year (65438+ 10), Wang Xianqian, head of Yuelu Academy, formally submitted it to Governor Chen Baozhen for approval. Xiong Xiling and others asked Governor Liu Kunyi of Liangjiang to allocate 7,000 yuan to increase the price of silver, so they built it in Xiaodong Street. In August, Chen Baozhen issued the "New Current Affairs School Admissions Guide", with a total enrollment of 120 students. 1 1 In June, Hunan Current Affairs School was announced, and 40 first-class students were enrolled. At that time, Xiong Xiling, the prime minister, and Yang Zichao, the supervisor, presided over the administration; Liang Qichao, the general tutor of Chinese, is divided into Han Wenju and Ye Juemai (Liang left Hunan for business in March of the following year and hired Ou and Tang as tutors), and Xu, the general tutor of western languages, is in charge of educational affairs. In February, 65438, Liang Qichao summarized the Ten Chapters of Hunan Current Affairs School, in order to resolve, cultivate the mind, govern the body, study, be poor in theory, learn righteousness, enjoy, lead students, learn the world, preach and admonish all students. He also formulated the working rules of the current affairs school, compiled the monthly reading schedule, and stipulated that his school-running policy was "to be both a school and an academy". Students "learn western languages as an internal course, teach them by the method of the school, and those who specialize in Chinese but don't learn western languages as an external course, and do it by the method of the academy." The teaching content is divided into two parts: general study and professional study. Pu Tong includes Confucian classics, philosophers, axioms, Chinese and foreign historical records, and gezhi arithmetic. Specializing in law and anecdotes. For the order of learning, master first, then major. Reading is also divided into specialization and dabbling. There is a question to be asked in the class. If students have questions about reading, they must copy them with "question paper", and the teacher will give a batch of answers in class. Monthly "monthly class" 1 time, 2 questions each time, which is also graded; There is a 1 "big exam" every quarter, and officials and gentry are invited to come to the class to test three items: reading, questions to be asked and class papers, to count the scores, to publish the list, and to publish the winners in Hunan Daily and Hunan Daily as a sign of encouragement. At that time, Liang Qichao and others were "obsessed with the theory of civil rights revolution and advocated it every day." Mencius' and Ram's theory of benevolence and righteousness and Kang Youwei's theory of restructuring have carried forward the western ideas of civil rights and equality, and made efforts to improve political public opinion. Tan Sitong and others wrote articles in the box to publicize and changed the atmosphere in Hunan. Influenced by it, Yuezhou Yueyang, Wugang Aoshan, Guanlan, Xiajiang and other academies all changed their statutes. In the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), the articles of association were revised in April, and extra-curricular and supplementary courses were added. At that time, there were more than 200 teachers and students in the whole school, who were "living together to give lectures, and they were in high spirits", forming a "heyday" after the start of school. So conservative people are taboo. "The blending of the old and the new began in Hunan and rose and fell in the capital." Under the pressure of Zhang Zhidong, Governor of Huguang, Chen Baozhen was removed from the post of Prime Minister of Xiong Xiling, replaced by Huang Zunxian and Wang Yishu, and soon dismissed teachers such as Han, Ye and Ou. In August, the 1898 coup, Chen Baozhen and others were dismissed, and Yang and Su Yu taught Neo-Confucianism and Tongcheng literature.

In February of the 25th year of Guangxu (1899), the governor of Hunan, Lian San, changed the current affairs school into a reality academy. There is a prime minister, who is also the minister of public security. He has jurisdiction over the hospital and presides over hospital affairs. Hire three middle school teachers, 1 math teacher, and two western translation teachers to take charge of educational affairs. Distributed in all provinces, departments, prefectures and counties of the province 120 students "test, choose, walk and live". Among them, "Li Yan's course is divided into classes and taught day and night". The following year, the relevant academic regulations since the Song and Yuan Dynasties were published in the Academic Charter of Qiushi Academy, and Xiangtan Huangshu _ About Ming Dow Academy was reprinted, aiming at "correcting" the new trend of Huxiang studies initiated by the current school. In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), it was changed to a provincial university hall, and in the following year it was renamed as Hunan University, which was one of the predecessors of Hunan University.

The current affairs school was born in the climax of the national demand for political reform and reform after Japanese imperialism forced the Qing court to sign the treaty of shimonoseki. It is a shining star in Hunan's educational innovation movement, although it is short-lived.