 Tongwen Guan

The School of Combined Learning, or the Tongwen Guan () was a government school for teaching Western languages (and later scientific subjects), founded at Beijing, China in 1862 during the late-Qing dynasty, right after the conclusion of the Second Opium War, as part of the Self-Strengthening Movement.Its establishment was intimately linked to the establishment of the Zongli Yamen, the Qing office of foreign affairs.