学堂

college / school (old)

to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology

(main) hall / large room for a specific purpose / CL:間|间[jian1] / relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family / of the same clan / classifier for classes, lectures etc / classifier for sets of furniture

college of Western learning in late Qing

Mawei River naval college, alternative name for Fuzhou naval college 福州船政學堂|福州船政学堂, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty

Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty

school after the Western model, teaching subjects such as foreign languages, math, physics, chemistry etc (old)