本文分上、中、下三篇. 上篇叙述了前清时期从洋务运动、甲午战争、戊戌维新、拳匪之乱、庚子之变、废科举，直到普遍建立新式学堂的历史过程. 此阶段我国的物理教育处在萌芽状态.

This article is divided into three chapters. The first chapter describes the historical process in the Qing Dynasty from the Westernization Movement，through the Sino-Japanese War in 1894，the Constitutional Reform in 1898，the Boxers Riot and the Incident in 1900，the abolishment of Imperial Examinations，to the establishment of new schools. At this stage physics education in China was in the bud.