TABLE OF CONTENTS. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Preface 1. Education under the Dutch (1624–1661). 1. The Dutch East India Company.... 2. Description of the inhabitants of South Formosa.. 3. Beginnings of Dutch missionary work............. 4. Schools for the aborigines; methods of instruction 5. Rules for imparting religious instruction.. 6. Proposed college for training native clergy.. 7. Results of the labors of the Dutch...... II. Education under the Chinese (1661-1683 and 1683-1895): 1. Koxinga and his successor.. 2. Conditions in Formosa when it became a Chinese possession. 3. Education of the Chinese.. (a) Object of education.. (b) System of control..... (c) Establishment of prefectural and district schools.. (d) The Imperial examinations (e) Work of Governor Liu Ming Chuan. (f) Private schools.... 4. Schools for the aborigines. (a) First attempts.... (b) Schools established in 1735. (c) Educational work among the tribes in the East and South.... (d) Aboriginal education under the progressive governor, Liu Ming Chuan.... 5. Summary of education under the Chinese.. III. Education under the Japanese (from 1895) 1. Status of education in Japan... 2. Conditions in Formosa... 3. Establishment of an educational system 4. Census returns having to do with education 5. Schools for natives (Chinese).. 24 26 28 28 29 29 31 31 III. Education under the Japanese (from 1895)—Continued. 5. Schools for natives (Chinese)-Continued. (b) Secondary public schools-Continued. The Industrial Sugar School (c) Private schools.... 6. Schools for the Japanese (a) Elementary schools.. (b) Secondary schools The Middle School The normal department.. The Girls' Higher School . 7. Schools for aborigines under the Dutch and under the Chinese.. 8. Summary, contrasting education under the Japanese with education APPENDIX: Missionary schools.. (a) The Spanish Mission.... (b) The English Presbyterian Mission. (c) The Canadian Presbyterian Mission.. INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE I. The Shirin Public School .... II. Class Room in the Language School... III. A Class in Physical Culture.. IV. A Class in Reading in the Shirin Girls' School To face page. 32 42 44 44 V. A, Taihoku City Elementary School for Japanese; B, Teachers and |