Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities
Title | Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Tze Ming Ng |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
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.
Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China's Christian Universities
Title | Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China's Christian Universities PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Tze Ming Ng |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789819900688 |
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
Title | China’s Christian Colleges PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Bays |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
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.
The Liberal Arts Curriculum in China's Christian Universities and Its Relevance to China's Universities Today
Title | The Liberal Arts Curriculum in China's Christian Universities and Its Relevance to China's Universities Today PDF eBook |
Author | Leping Mou |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
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This thesis considers the historical background, the development, and the characteristics of China's Christian universities, with a special focus on their curriculum design. Through the lens of postmodern theory, the thesis explores the concept and essence of liberal arts education as reflected in the curriculum of the Christian universities through a qualitative methodology, focusing on the analysis of historical archival material. The purpose is to find insights for today's trend towards reviving liberal arts education in China's elite universities as a way of countering the influence of utilitarianism and neo-liberalism in an era of economic globalization.
New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952
Title | New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952 PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2015-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004285245 |
Essays in New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916·1952 reevaluate the experience of China's preeminent Christian university in an era of nationalism and revolution. Although the university was denounced by the Chinese Communists and critics as an elitist and imperialist enterprise irrelevant to China's real needs, the essays demonstrate that Yenching's emphasis on biculturalism, cultural exchange, and a broad liberal education combined with professional expertise ultimately are compatible with nation-building and a modern Chinese identity. They show that the university fostered transnational exchanges of knowledge, changed the lives of students and faculty, and responded to the pressures of nationalism, war, and revolution. Topics include efforts to make Christianity relevant to China's needs; promotion of professional expertise, gender relationships and coeducation; the liberal arts; Sino-American cultural interactions; and Yenching's ambiguous response to Chinese nationalism, Japanese invasion, and revolution.
Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society
Title | Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society PDF eBook |
Author | You Guo Jiang |
Publisher | Brill Academic Pub |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9789004282308 |
In Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education You Guo Jiang, S. J. provides a unique focus on the re-emergence of liberal arts education in China.
Managing God's Higher Learning
Title | Managing God's Higher Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Dong Wang |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780739119365 |
Managing GodOs Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan _ governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women _ have either never been made the subject of scholarly discussion or are different from what we think we know about U.S.-China relations in the past. As the first co-educational institution of higher learning in China, Lingnan made monumental strides in the management of programs for women, a fact which confounds the assumptions made by China historians. The author argues that LingnanOs growth, resilience and success can partly be accounted for by entrepreneurial operations. Wang also contends that Lingnan found ways to adapt and 'layer' a Christian presence at a time when the nationalization and secularization of higher education was making rapid headway. Based on information from archives located across the Pacific, this book will appeal to scholars of Chinese history as well as those interested in Sino-American relations.