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New perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952 : a liberal education for a new China /

This book shows how China's preeminent Christian college's promotion of biculturalism, liberal education, and liberal Christianity was a precursor to contemporary modifications of Eurocentric models and refutes claims that a liberal cosmopolitan education is incompatible with nation-buildi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rosenbaum, Arthur Lewis, 1939- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, the Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2012]
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  • New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952: A Liberal Education for a New China; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Revisiting Yenching's Experience of Biculturalism; 2. Yenching University and Sino-American Interactions, 1919-1952; 3. To Educate China in the Humanities and Produce China Knowledge in the United States: The Founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1924-1928; 4. Yenching University and the Japanese Occupation, 1937-1941.
  • 5. The End of an American Enterprise in China: The Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1949-19516. Reframing the Yenching Story; 7. Chancellor Wu Leichuan: A Confucian-Christian Educator; 8. Were Christian Members of the Yenching Faculty Unique?: An Examination of the Life Fellowship Movement, 1919-1931; 9. Christianity, Academics, and National Salvation in China: Yenching University, 1924-1949; 10. The Beida Tsinghua Connection: Yenching in the World of Beijing's Elite Universities; 11. Cultural Mixture: Yenching Students and Missionary Christianity.
  • 12. Intellectual Group under the Influence of Two Cultures: A Historical Analysis of Yenching Graduates in China13. Beyond Gentility: The Mission of Women Educators at Yenching; 14. How to Understand Bicultural Education and Transnational Interactions in Education
  • Selected Bibliography; Index; Illustration Section.