清末：中国比较教育发端期

The End of Qing Dynasty: Beginning of Comparative Education in China

中国比较教育发端于清朝末期。这一时期的主要代表人物是吴汝纶。他受清政府之命赴日本进行了3 个多月的教育考察，有明确借鉴日本经验改革本国教育的目的，他通过各种形式的调研，获取了翔实的日本教育资料，形成了自己教育改革的主张。这些资料与主张促进了当时及民国初期的教育改革。这充分体现了发端期的中国比较教育研究所具有的前沿性，这一时期的比较教育研究具有自己鲜明的特点，并给而后的比较教育研究者留下了正反两个方面的宝贵遗产。

Comparative education research in China began in the last stage of Qing Dynasty. The representative figures of this time is Wu Rulun. At that time he was sent by Qing government to Japan to learn about the experience in educational reform. During more than three months' investigation, Wu gained detailed materials on the situation of Japanese education, thus formed his own opinions on educational reform, which facilitated the educational reform of Qing Dynasty and of the Republic of China in the early days. This fullymanifested Comparative education in China was born to be at the edge of time and has its own character, which left precious asset to the later comparative education researchers.