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- The Chinese Educational Mission (1872–1881) was the pioneering but frustrated attempt by reform-minded officials of the Qing dynasty to educate a group of 120 Chinese students in the United States. In 1871, Yung Wing, himself the first Chinese graduate of Yale University, persuaded the Chinese government to send supervised groups of young Chinese to the United States to study Western science and engineering. With the government's eventual approval, he organized what came to be known as the Chinese Educational Mission, which included 120 students, some under the age of ten, to study in the New England region of the United States beginning in 1872. The boys arrived in several detachments and lived with American families in Hartford, Connecticut and other New England towns. After graduating high school, the boys went on to college, especially at Yale. When a new supervisory official arrived, he found that they had adopted many American customs, such as playing baseball, and felt they were neglecting their Chinese heritage and becoming "denationalized". In addition, external pressures such as the US government's refusal in 1878 to permit students to attend the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis in contravention of the Burlingame Treaty of 1868 called the whole purpose of the mission, the acquisition of Western military expertise, into question. Due to internal and external pressures, the mission was ended in 1881. When the boys returned to China, they were confined and interrogated. The influential official Huang Zunxian wrote a poem which admitted that the students had lived luxurious lives and become Americanized, but lamented the lost opportunity: Unfortunately, in the Imperial AcademyThe curriculum has not included Western learning.Withal, on the promotion of scienceNow depends the future of the nation.A decade's effort in training youthsWill lay the foundation for a century's wealth and strength. Many of the students later returned to China and made significant contributions to China's civil services, engineering, and the sciences. Among the students who attended Natchaug School in Willimantic, Connecticut and MIT was (宋文翙), who later became a Vice Admiral in the Chinese Navy. Other prominent students on the mission included Liang Cheng, Tang Shaoyi, Cai Tinggan, and Zhan Tianyou. (en)
- La mission d'éducation chinoise (1872–1881) de la dynastie Qing est le nom de l'envoi d'un groupe de 120 étudiants chinois aux États-Unis. Cette tentative est pionnière mais interrompue trop vite. (fr)
- 大清留美幼童指中國歷史上首批官派留學生。早年容閎曾留學美國，成為首名就讀耶魯學院之中國人。1870年，容閎倡議派幼童前往泰西肄業之計劃，獲其好友丁日昌贊同，並且得到曾國藩、李鴻章支持，成立「幼童出洋肄業局」。1872年到1875年，清政府先後派出四批共120名幼童赴美國留學，幼童出洋時平均年齡只有12歲，容閎亦被任命為留美學生監督及清政府駐美副公使。但隨後數年，駐美公使陳蘭彬不斷地要求撤回學生，與容閎爭論不休，李鴻章從中調停。 然而1881年，留學之事出現變數。李鴻章本欲該批學生進入軍校就讀，但美國政府當時只允許日本人就讀軍校，而拒該批學生於外，陳蘭彬故主張全撤留學生。再加上留美幼童習染西洋風氣，甚至歸信基督教和剪辮，令保守的清朝官僚十分不滿，上奏批評要求撤回。最終朝廷准奏，召回幼童。除了部分因病和擅自留美不歸者外，其餘均召回國授予職務。 雖然這次留學運動未能完滿成功，但這一批留學生返國後對於中國現代化均有貢獻。當中最著名者為外交官唐紹儀、劉玉麟、中國鐵路之父詹天佑、香港行政局首任華人官守議員周壽臣等。 (zh)
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- La mission d'éducation chinoise (1872–1881) de la dynastie Qing est le nom de l'envoi d'un groupe de 120 étudiants chinois aux États-Unis. Cette tentative est pionnière mais interrompue trop vite. (fr)
- 大清留美幼童指中國歷史上首批官派留學生。早年容閎曾留學美國，成為首名就讀耶魯學院之中國人。1870年，容閎倡議派幼童前往泰西肄業之計劃，獲其好友丁日昌贊同，並且得到曾國藩、李鴻章支持，成立「幼童出洋肄業局」。1872年到1875年，清政府先後派出四批共120名幼童赴美國留學，幼童出洋時平均年齡只有12歲，容閎亦被任命為留美學生監督及清政府駐美副公使。但隨後數年，駐美公使陳蘭彬不斷地要求撤回學生，與容閎爭論不休，李鴻章從中調停。 然而1881年，留學之事出現變數。李鴻章本欲該批學生進入軍校就讀，但美國政府當時只允許日本人就讀軍校，而拒該批學生於外，陳蘭彬故主張全撤留學生。再加上留美幼童習染西洋風氣，甚至歸信基督教和剪辮，令保守的清朝官僚十分不滿，上奏批評要求撤回。最終朝廷准奏，召回幼童。除了部分因病和擅自留美不歸者外，其餘均召回國授予職務。 雖然這次留學運動未能完滿成功，但這一批留學生返國後對於中國現代化均有貢獻。當中最著名者為外交官唐紹儀、劉玉麟、中國鐵路之父詹天佑、香港行政局首任華人官守議員周壽臣等。 (zh)
- The Chinese Educational Mission (1872–1881) was the pioneering but frustrated attempt by reform-minded officials of the Qing dynasty to educate a group of 120 Chinese students in the United States. In 1871, Yung Wing, himself the first Chinese graduate of Yale University, persuaded the Chinese government to send supervised groups of young Chinese to the United States to study Western science and engineering. With the government's eventual approval, he organized what came to be known as the Chinese Educational Mission, which included 120 students, some under the age of ten, to study in the New England region of the United States beginning in 1872. The boys arrived in several detachments and lived with American families in Hartford, Connecticut and other New England towns. After graduating h (en)
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