洋務派

the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the 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

clique / school / group / faction / to dispatch / to send / to assign / to appoint / pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio pi = 3.1415926 / (loanword) pie