Tongwen Guan
| Tongwen Guan | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 同文館 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 同文馆 | ||||||||
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The School of Combined Learning, or the Tongwen Guan was a government school for teaching Western languages and science, founded at Beijing in 1862, right after the conclusion of the Second Opium War, as part of the Self-Strengthening Movement. Its establishment was intimately linked to the establishment of the Zongli Yamen, the Qing office of foreign affairs.