Esperanto In China
Esperanto in China dates back to the late Qing dynasty, and remains active in China. During the early People's Republic of China, policymakers viewed Esperanto as a means to engage readers and intellectuals in the non-socialist countries and, after the Sino-Soviet split, in countries aligned with the USSR. History Esperanto was imported to the Qing dynasty along with other western inventions, and mainly from Russian merchants in Harbin. It was brought from Chinese students who studied overseas, in Japan, France, and Britain. The first attested Esperanto courses in China were held in Shanghai in 1906. Shanghai later became the birthplace of the Chinese Esperanto Association in 1909. The association was active during the 1911 Revolution, Xinhai revolution, with the education minister of the Republic of China, Cai Yuanpei, ordering Esperanto to be taught in Chinese schools as an elective course. Cai later invited Vasili Eroshenko to be an esperanto instructor at Beijing University. ...
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