China's Christian colleges
Subtitle: cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950
By: edited by Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer.
Contributors: Bays, Daniel H.; Widmer, Ellen.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780804759489; 9780804759496
Subjects: Church colleges -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; Education, Higher -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses; China -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses; United States -- Relations -- China -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference held Sept. 2003 at Wesleyan University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The call : the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. The SVM and transformation of the Protestant mission to China / Terrill E. Lautz; title: pt. 2. Foundations of the college enterprise. American geometries and the architecture of Christian campuses in China / Jeffrey W. Cody; title: Science, religion, and the classics in Christian higher education to 1920 / Ryan Dunch; title: The seven sisters and China, 1900-1950 / Ellen Widmer; title: pt. 3. Curriculum and careers. Liberal arts education in English and campus culture at St. John's University / Edward Yihua Xu; title: The professionalization of Chinese domesticity : Ava B. Milam and home economics at Yenching University / Helen Schneider; title: Anglo-American law at Soochow University / Alison W. Conner; title: From Lingnan to Pomona : Charles K. Edmunds and his Chinese American career / Dong Wang; title: pt. 4. Wider ramifications. National salvation : teaching civic duty in China's Christian colleges / Susan Rigdon; title: Same bed, different dreams : the American postwar plan for China's Christian colleges, 1943-1946 / Jiafeng Liu; title: China's Christian colleges and the founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute / Paul Daniel Waite and Peichi Tung Waite; title: pt. 5. Beyond China. A Japanese American enterprise : Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr network and the founding of Tsuda College / Yuko Takahashi; title: Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey / Ted Widmer.