At the end of the Qing Dynasty, under the situation of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, the Qing government had to change its overseas Chinese policy and began to care about overseas Chinese education. In the 31st year of Guangxu (1905), the Qing government sent Duan Fang, Dai Hongci and other five ministers to the East China Sea to inspect constitutionalism. Duan Fang returned from Europe via Nanyang and was welcomed by local overseas Chinese businessmen and teachers and students of overseas Chinese schools. He not only deeply felt the patriotic feelings of overseas Chinese, but also realized the urgency of organizing overseas Chinese education. In September of Guangxu's thirty-second year, Duan Fang was transferred to the post of Governor of Liangjiang, which gave him the opportunity to start a domestic overseas Chinese education and set up a school in Jinan.
In the thirty-second year of Guangxu, the Ministry of Education of the Qing government sent Qian Xun, a research member, and Dong Hongyi, a special department of the Ministry, to Nanyang to inspect overseas Chinese education. They learned in Java that about 30 overseas students from China "decided to study in China and choose Nanjing". So it was convenient to send a telegram to the Ministry of Industry and Duan Fang in November of Guangxu's thirty-second year. Because Duan Fang had already served as governor of Liangjiang at that time, Nanjing was within his jurisdiction. At the same time, Duan Fang received a telephone consultation from the Ministry of Education: "Overseas Chinese on the island are full of ambitions and should follow the trend." Duan believes that "overseas Chinese in Java live far away and never forget to return to China. They originated from crossing the river inland and studied in Jinling. Their patriotism is extremely commendable." And put forward that "overseas Chinese in Nanyang Islands, Honolulu, San Francisco and other places, if they wish to send their children to study in Ningxiang, will accept them, so as to link macro-education with the feelings of overseas Chinese." China gives strong support to returned overseas students. In addition to electronic rehabilitation, the throne was played in the court on the fourth day of December in Guangxu thirty-two years (1907 65438+ 10/7). Guangxu December 27th (1February 9th, 907) Zhu Pi: The Ministry of Education knows this and respects it.
Chen was appointed by Duan Fang to be responsible for this matter. Zheng Hongnian, who worked in the Academic Affairs Office of the Governor of Liangjiang at that time, also participated in the reception of overseas Chinese students. 1907 At the end of February, the first batch of 2/kloc-0 overseas Chinese students arrived in Nanjing under the escort of Dong Hongyi. Soon, the second batch of 10 overseas Chinese students arrived. These students are temporarily placed in Nanjing Sanpailou Industrial School. According to the original idea, "after students come to Nanjing, they will inquire about their wishes and assign them to various schools", but they did not want to run a school dedicated to recruiting overseas Chinese students. However, after these overseas Chinese students arrived in Nanjing, they changed their original plans. At the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Education Conference held by the Central Training Department of the Kuomintang in June, Zheng Hongnian introduced this situation in the report of National Jinan University 1929 1 1: "At the end (refers to the end), I want to test everyone's level and then distribute it to schools. When they (overseas Chinese students) returned to China, it snowed heavily, which was very different from the tropical climate in Nanyang, so several of them fell ill. The oldest is twenty-two, and the youngest is only eleven. I said to Duan, I'm afraid we can't separate. We must go back separately. So I asked the teacher to tutor upstairs in Beijing Sanpailou Industrial School. " "I discussed it with Chen and decided to stay together and invite more teachers to teach. Chen also inscribed a name, with the Book of Classics as the meaning of "New South Society, Sound Education stops in the Four Seas", and the name of the school is "Jinan" School, which is in the former site of Miaoxiang Temple. Jinan School started on March 23rd, 1907 is located in the former site of Miaoxiang Temple in Xue Jia Lane, Nanjing. Zheng Hongnian is the head of the church.
Duan Fang adopted Zheng Hongnian's and Chen's suggestions, and only in April of Guangxu 33 (1May of 907) said: "It is commendable to find that students are far away, not forgetting Middle-earth, and crossing the river with affection." However, when students return to the mainland for the first time, it is difficult to suddenly combine the languages. They should be sent to teach Chinese, Putonghua and other sciences for one year, and then take a degree examination to find out their wishes and assign them to various schools. In addition, I heard that many people come here, not to run a special school, but for overseas Chinese. When I was appointed as the academic special envoy of Jiangning, I sent Wang Chonglie, an alternate Taoist in Zhili, to take care of everything, raise funds, select school buildings, postpone classes, teach in different subjects, send personnel to manage and integrate the project, which was called Jinan School. "The Ministry of Knowledge was written by Emperor Guangxu in May and December (1June 22, 907). It can be seen from the above situation: "After Jinan School has started, the end party only asked Emperor Guangxu for approval, which is actually a re-approval procedure. Since the acceptance of overseas Chinese students was approved before Guangxu, the establishment of Jinan School was only to proceed from reality and adopt a flexible approach in order to better run overseas Chinese education.
After the establishment of Jinan School, many overseas Chinese students came to Singapore and Malaya to study. According to the actual situation and the needs of running a school, Duan Fang also played "The Handling of Jinan School" in May of Guangxu's thirty-fourth year, and proposed: "Now it is planned to change this school into a middle school with a higher primary school, divided into one middle school and one class in two higher primary schools."
The school scale of Jinan School is determined to be 500 students. By the year of Xuantongyuan (1909), there were 167 students, and by191year, there were 240 students.
19110 In June, the Revolution of 1911 broke out and the Qing Dynasty was overthrown. Jinan school was closed because nobody was in charge. According to Zheng Hongnian in the Report of National Jinan University: "In the battle of 19 1 1 year, all the teachers and students of the school (referring to Jinan School) went to work in Wuchang and Shanghai, some accompanied Mr. Huang Xing, some accompanied Mr. Chen, and some were killed or injured." After the closure of Jinan School, overseas Chinese and domestic educators strongly demanded the restoration of Jinan School, but Yuan Shikai, a national thief, blocked it in every way. In the above report, Zheng Hongnian talked about the situation at that time: "When Dong Hongyi was working in the Beijing Ministry of Education, I urged him to restore his mind many times. I'll rush Dong after he finishes teaching. He secretly told me that Yuan Xiangcheng (that is, Yuan Shikai) thought Jinan was a revolutionary party, which was extremely taboo and inconvenient. After Yuan Yuan's death, Jiangsu Education Association resumed, and the school site was still in Xuejia Lane, Nanjing. 19 16 Yuan Shikai's emperor dream was shattered and echoed throughout his life. Moved away the stumbling block of Jinan school restoration. 19171kloc-0/The Ministry of Education of Beiyang Government approved the restoration of Jinan School and appointed Huang Yanpei, vice president of Jiangsu Education Society, to preside over the restoration work. After several months of preparation, Jinan School started classes at its original site on 19 18, and changed its name to National Jinan School, with its principal Zhao Zhengping.