It's just that under the Qing dynasty, the farther one advanced, the narrower the road became. This is why China's modern university education "was directly copied from the European university system, rather than evolving from the ancient taixue system."
不過清朝的國子監，路越走越窄，所以大學改革才「直取歐洲大學之制而模仿之，並不自古之太學演化而成。」