num_pages: 472
description: The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.
language: English
title: The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937
titlecomplete: The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937 (Harvard East Asian Monographs, 148)
genres: History, China
ratings_count: 6
series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
publisher: Harvard University Asia Center