洋务学堂

college of Western learning in late Qing

ocean / vast / foreign / silver dollar or coin

foreign affairs (in Qing times) / foreign learning

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

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

college / school (old)

(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