China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950China'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. |
Contents
PART TWO I FOUNDATIONS OF THE COLLEGE | 23 |
Science Religion and the Classics in Christian Higher | 57 |
PART THREE I CURRICULUM AND CAREERS | 103 |
AngloAmerican Law at Soochow University | 147 |
Charles K Edmunds | 173 |
part four j wider ramifications | 189 |
The American Postwar | 218 |
part five i beyond china | 267 |
Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey | 287 |
This Volume in the Context | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
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China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 Daniel Bays,Ellen Widmer Limited preview - 2009 |
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