China's Christian colleges : cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950 /

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 campuse...

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Tác giả khác: Bays, Daniel H., Widmer, Ellen
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.
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Mục lục:
  • pt. 1. The call : the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions. The SVM and transformation of the Protestant mission to China / Terrill E. Lautz
  • pt. 2. Foundations of the college enterprise. American geometries and the architecture of Christian campuses in China / Jeffrey W. Cody
  • Science, religion, and the classics in Christian higher education to 1920 / Ryan Dunch
  • The seven sisters and China, 1900-1950 / Ellen Widmer
  • pt. 3. Curriculum and careers. Liberal arts education in English and campus culture at St. John's University / Edward Yihua Xu
  • The professionalization of Chinese domesticity : Ava B. Milam and home economics at Yenching University / Helen Schneider
  • Anglo-American law at Soochow University / Alison W. Conner
  • From Lingnan to Pomona : Charles K. Edmunds and his Chinese American career / Dong Wang
  • pt. 4. Wider ramifications. National salvation : teaching civic duty in China's Christian colleges / Susan Rigdon
  • Same bed, different dreams : the American postwar plan for China's Christian colleges, 1943-1946 / Jiafeng Liu
  • China's Christian colleges and the founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute / Paul Daniel Waite and Peichi Tung Waite
  • pt. 5. Beyond China. A Japanese American enterprise : Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr network and the founding of Tsuda College / Yuko Takahashi
  • Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey / Ted Widmer.