Research on the Development of Female Gymnastics Schools of China during the Late Qing dynasty and the Republic of China
Female Gymnastics School of China,first founded in the Wushen year of the Guangxu reign in the Qing dynasty,lasted for about 33 years and cultivated more than 1,000 female physical education teachers,which blazed a trail for professional female phys-ical education in China.However,there has been a lack of research on its founding time,founder,school name and years of study so far.As a result,many mistakes have occurred in the introduction concerning the history of female physical education in textbooks and dictionaries.Using the methods of literature review and logic analysis,the author has conducted an investigation,attempting to clarify a number of questions concerning the school name,the founding time,the change of the person in charge,years of study,curriculum,and teaching staff,so as to reveal the truth regarding the development of the school one hundred years ago,and to show the mental evo-lution of the physical education workers in modern China in their struggle for the cause of female physical education,thus providing val-uable experience for the better development of physical education in China.
school physical educationcultivation of physical education teacherstraining institutionsFemale Gymnastics School of China