洋務

foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning

ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin

affair / business / matter / to be engaged in / to attend to / by all means

the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing

college of Western learning in late Qing

Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动