New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952
Subtitle: A Liberal Education for a New China
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9789004285231
Subjects: Universities and colleges, china; Biculturalism; Education, humanistic
Description: This book shows how China's preeminent Christian college's promotion of biculturalism, liberal education, and liberal Christianity was a precursor to contemporary modifications of Eurocentric models and refutes claims that a liberal cosmopolitan education is incompatible with nation-building and a modern Chinese identity.