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.

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 irrelev...

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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.
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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.