清朝同治二年(1863年),江苏巡抚李鸿章在上海创办了一所“广方言馆”。该馆初设于旧上海县署东南面,后迁至江南制造局西北面。它与一般注重经史义理、八股时文的旧式书院不同,教学目的是为了培养精通洋务的各种专门人才。所以,广方言馆可算是上海第一所近代类型的文理科综合性学校。 Two years of the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi (1863), Jiangsu governor Li Hongzhang in Shanghai founded a “wide dialect library.” The museum set up in the southeast of the old Shanghai County Department, later moved to Jiangnan manufacturing northwest. It is different from the old-style academies, which generally emphasize the history and the righteousness of the time. The purpose of teaching is to train all kinds of specialists who are proficient in the Westernization. Therefore, the wide dialect Museum can be regarded as Shanghai’s first modern type of liberal arts comprehensive school.