New perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952 : : a liberal education for a new China / / edited by Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum ; with a preface by Charles W. Hayford.

• TeilnehmendeR: Rosenbaum, Arthur Lewis,; Hayford, Charles W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2012.; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Charles W. Hayford -- Introduction: Revisiting Yenching's Experience of Biculturalism / Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum -- Yenching University and Sino-American Interactions, 1919–1952 / Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum -- To Educate China in the Humanities and Produce China Knowledge in the United States: The Founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1924–1928 / Shuhua Fan -- Yenching University and the Japanese Occupation, 1937–1941 / Sophia Lee -- The End of an American Enterprise in China: The Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1949–1951 / Shuhua Fan -- Reframing the Yenching Story / Philip West -- Chancellor Wu Leichuan: A Confucian-Christian Educator / Chu Sin-Jan -- Were Christian Members of the Yenching Faculty Unique?: An Examination of the Life Fellowship Movement, 1919–1931 / Peter Chen-main Wang -- Christianity, Academics, and National Salvation in China: Yenching University, 1924–1949 / Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum -- The Beida Tsinghua Connection: Yenching in the World of Beijing's Elite Universities / John Israel -- Cultural Mixture: Yenching Students and Missionary Christianity / Shi Jinghuan -- Intellectual Group under the Influence of Two Cultures: A Historical Analysis of Yenching Graduates in China / Liu Haiyan -- Beyond Gentility: The Mission of Women Educators at Yenching / Carolyn Wakeman -- How to Understand \'Bicultural Education\' and \'Transnational Interactions in Education\' / Nita Kumar -- Selected Bibliography / Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum -- Index / Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum -- Illustration Section / Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum.