China’s Christian Colleges

China’s Christian Colleges
Author: Daniel Bays
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2009-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804776326

China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses, most of which were American-supported and had a distinctly American flavor, were laboratories or incubators of mutual cultural interaction that has been very rare in modern Chinese history. In this Sino-foreign cultural territory, the collaborative educational endeavor between Westerners and Chinese created a highly unusual degree of cultural hybridity in some Americans and Chinese. The thirteen essays of the book provide concrete examples of why even today, more than a half-century after the colleges were taken over by the state, long-lasting cultural results of life in the colleges remain.

China and the Christian Colleges, 1850-1950

China and the Christian Colleges, 1850-1950
Author: Jessie Gregory Lutz
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1971
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities

Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities
Author: Peter Tze Ming Ng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9819900670

This book brings together English translations of thirteen research papers published in recent years by Chinese historians, sociologists, and educators. These papers investigate various dimensions of the legacy of China’s historic The Christian Universities which continues to inspire higher education reform in China even in the twenty-first century. This book focuses on Christian Universities, which fostered a particularly notable Liberal Arts Education in the Chinese context. Besides embracing some ideals in common with Liberal Arts Education developed in the West, their Liberal Arts Education curriculum had an emphasis on readings in the classics, history, philosophy, religion, ethics, and literature which conveyed traditional Chinese values. The Christian Universities also shared a strong commitment to moral formation, community service, and global citizenship education. This book emphasizes Liberal Arts Education that focused on the whole person, where academic knowledge, skills, and character were equally valued. The book presents distinctive characteristics of the study of Christian higher education in China and the interplay between globalization and localization.

China’s Christian Colleges

China’s Christian Colleges
Author: Daniel Bays
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2009-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804759499

A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.