From the Hundred Days' Reform (1898) to the New Policies at the End of the Qing Dynasty ----The Imperial University of Peking in a Time of Drastic Change

The establishment of the Imperial University Peking was a major event in Hundred Days' Reformation and preserved conflict between reformers conservatives. Before fall Qing Dynasty, witnessed ancient empire's attempts to improve its backwardness. Against backdrop imperial reform, newly established university also experienced impact old new forces from court itself. country's talent training system modernized by constructing schools at all levels. Changes examination led change traditional path upward mobility for students who had previously studied become officials study science culture. Meanwhile, faced with composition different educational backgrounds, those received Chinese education westernized knowledge, together transformation modern China significant on modernization process China. article discusses life experiences some formerly Jinshi titled intellectuals after government ceased exist, mainly subsequent Republic era.