The Establishment and Reconstruction of the Academician System in China

The Establishment and Reconstruction of the Academician System in China
Author: Jinhai Guo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2020-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9811572089
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This book is the first monograph to study the processes of establishing and reconstructing the academician system, and the landmark events in the history of science and technology in 20th century China. It also provides new insights to help us understand the process of scientific institutionalization in modern China. Drawing on detailed archive records, it discusses the process of the establishment of the Academia Sinica's academician system in the Republic of China, as well as the unique and tortuous transformation process from members of the Academic Divisions(学部委员)to academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院)in the People's Republic of China. These play an important part of China's modernization process, and reflect scientific institutionalization in China. The book also highlights the fact that under the leadership of the government, the academic elite became participants in the construction of national academic system after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Cai Yuanpei: Selected Writings on Education

Cai Yuanpei: Selected Writings on Education
Author: Leiluo Cai
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2024-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004519491
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This collection of writings traces the evolution and revolution of Chinese modern education in the early twentieth century initiated by Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), the first Minister of Education of the Republic of China, President of Peking University (1916-1927) and the founder of Academia Sinica. This volume illustrates Cai Yuanpei’s educational thoughts, one of which is known as “freedom of thought and academic inclusiveness”(思想自由,兼容並包), through his own words from his political, social, and academic endeavors. Cai navigated the landscape of Chinese education at the time, bridging the gap between tradition and revolution, East and West, and setting the cornerstone of the Chinese modern education system. His innovative ideology remains significant in the context of Chinese education reforms in the 21st century.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Author: John C. Smart
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2009-04-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402096283
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Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.

Chinese Women in Christian Ministry

Chinese Women in Christian Ministry
Author: Mary Keng Mun Chung
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780820451985
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Chinese Women in Christian Ministry uses an interdisciplinary (theological, historical, and anthropological) approach to analyze how theological and cultural factors have influenced attitudes about the place and role of women in the Chinese church and Christian ministry in Asia and in the West. The changing status and role of women in Chinese historical sociocultural contexts provide insights into the development of Confucian gender ideology and its impact on the Chinese. Western women missionaries with their Christian and cultural ideals became a catalyst for change in the gender role and mentality of Chinese women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Global women's issues have sparked a genuine concern among the Chinese leading to changing attitudes toward Chinese women in Christian ministry.

Competing Visions of World Order

Competing Visions of World Order
Author: Sebastian Conrad
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230604285
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Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949

Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949
Author: Xiaorong Han
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0791483924
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Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant—a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.