| Abstract As a pioneer of comparative education in China, Zhuang Zexuan borrowed and transplanted comparative education theory from Teachers College of Columbia University. In order to seek the path of “the sinicization of new education”, he considered national character as the core content of comparative education research. By means of the methods of history and literature, Zhuang Zexuan uncovered the national characters of various countries and further discussed the mutual relation between national character and educational system. Based on that, he attempted to build an interpenetrating network of relationships between various factors such as natural environment, national character, economic force, social organization and education, with which he tried to search the power outside school influencing education. Zhuang Zexuan’s educational practice was deeply influenced by his highly valuing of the issue of national character. With the view to the improvement of China’s national character, he participated in the debate on “problem of language and words”, the popularization of public education, and the examination and practice of frontier and overseas Chinese education. |
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