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Early engineering education in China has influenced later practice. This article takes the Fuzhou Shipping School as a case study, examining it status, basic characteristics, and impact on engineering education in China during the Westernization Movement. It shows how engineering education incorporated practice that influenced other aspects of Chinese society, and suggests a general framework for understanding the development of subsequent engineering education in China.
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Jia, C., Jian, W. (2018). Early Chinese Engineering Education: Influence and Disappearance of the Fuzhou Shipping School. In: Mitcham, C., LI, B., Newberry, B., ZHANG, B. (eds) Philosophy of Engineering, East and West. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62450-1_14
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