The School of Combined Learning, or the Tongwen Guan was a government school for teaching Western languages, founded at Peking (Beijing), China in 1862 during the late-Qing dynasty, right after the conclusion of the Second Opium War, as part of the Self-Strengthening Movement. Its establishment was intimately linked to the establishment of the Zongli Yamen, the Qing office of foreign affairs.

The Self-Strengthening Movement, also known as the Westernization or Western Affairs Movement, was a period of radical institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars.