academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
建模
jiàn mó
to construct a model (an abstract model, as in applied mathematics or machine learning etc)
启蒙
qǐ méng
to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
宗师
zōng shī
great scholar respected for learning and integrity
Confucian study of ethics / study of Daoism / school for Daoism in Tang and Song times / Daoist magic / another name for 理學|理学, rational learning of Song dynasty neo-Confucianism
西学
Xī xué
Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动
四书
Sì shū
Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子
国子监
Guó zǐ jiàn
Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
太学
Tài xué
Imperial College of Supreme Learning, established in 124 BC, and the highest educational institute in ancient China until the Sui Dynasty
汉学
Hàn xué
sinology / Chinese studies (in foreign schools) / Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
才疏学浅
cái shū xué qiǎn
(humble expr.) of humble talent and shallow learning (idiom) / Pray forgive my ignorance,...
劝学
quàn xué
On learning, classic book by Confucian philosopher Xun Zi 荀子 / (c. 310-237 BC)
描红
miáo hóng
to trace over red characters (as a method of learning to write) / paper printed with red characters to trace over
格物
gé wù
to study the underlying principles, esp. in neo-Confucian rational learning 理學|理学[li3 xue2] / word for Western natural sciences during late Qing
洋务派
yáng wù pài
the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing
食古不化
shí gǔ bù huà
to swallow ancient learning without digesting it (idiom) / to be pedantic without having a mastery of one's subject