●Foreword
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction
Chapter I Catalysts for Education: The Opium War, the Trend of Reformist Thinking, and the Westernization Movement
Chapter II The Fie Struggles between the Westernizationists and the Conservatives over Tongwenguan of Peking
Chapter III The Development of Tongwenguan of Peking
Chapter IV The Legacy and Influence of Tongwenguan
Chapter V From the Society for Self-Strengthening to the Official Publishing Bureau: Preparations for the Imperial University of Peking
Chapter VI The Hundred Days’ Reform and the Official Launch of the Imperial University of Peking
Chapter VII The Rectification of the Imperial University of Peking
Chapter VIII Guangxu, Cixi, and the Three Statutes of the Imperial University of Peking
Chapter IX The Imperial University: Curriculum Design and Implementation of Teaching
Chapter X Administration, Rules, and Regulations of the Imperial University of Peking
Chapter XI The Imperial University of Peking and Its Affiliated Structures
Chapter XII The Road to Democracy and Science
Chapter XIII Connecting the Past and the Present: the First National Institution of Higher Learning in Modern China
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辛亥革命前的北京大學,被稱為京師大學堂。京師大學堂的成立標志著綿延一千多年的科舉制的崩潰及新式教育制度的誕生。北京大學既是新文化運動的發源地、五四運動的中心,也是民主、科學思想及馬列主義在中國最早的的傳播地。這樣一所與中國近代史有著密切聯繫的大學,其創辦原因何在?它與太學、國子監是什麼關繫?京師大學堂到底有沒有前身?中國第一所官方開辦的新式學堂京師同文館為何被並入京師大學堂?本書從上述問題出發,以大量史實詳細論證了北京大學的創辦是晚清維新派與保守派多年鬥爭的結果,並進一步回答了該大學創辦初期其他幾個引人深思的問題:慈禧太後在殘酷鎮壓了戊戌變法後,為什麼廢除了幾乎所有的變法措施,卻單單保留了擁有改革精神的京師大學堂?為什麼該學堂有三個不同的建校章程,且均與光緒皇帝和慈禧太後有關?它的出現何以代表了“中國現代教育的開端”?