A Study of the Institutional History of Doctoral Education in the Period of the Republic of China

摘要

Since the last emperor of Qing Dynasty retired in 1911, China had entered the period of the Republic of China. And since then, the Government of the Republic of China ("National Government" for short) had further strengthened the contact and communication with European and American culture and education. So far, China's doctoral candidate education had entered the stage of educational practice from concept of education system. Although universities interrupted and even gave up the exploration on postgraduate education due to immigration after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, it had positive practical significance for the establishment of postgraduate education system after the founding of the People's Republic of China. This paper combs and summarizes the institutional history of doctoral candidate education in the period of the Republic of China from the background, the exploration of education system and the exploration of academic degree system. The purpose is to further improve the institutional research on doctoral candidate education in China, and further make contribution to establishing a sound postgraduate education system with Chinese characteristics of socialism.