Confucianism, colonialism, and the Cold War : : Chinese cultural education at Hong Kong's New Asia College, 1949-76 / / Grace Ai-Ling Chou.

• Superior document: Ideas, history, and modern China ; 4
• Author: Chou, Grace Ai-Ling.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ideas, history, and modern China ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The story of Hong Kong’s New Asia College, from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reveals the efforts of a group of self-exiled intellectuals in establishing a Confucian-oriented higher education on the Chinese periphery. Their program of cultural education encountered both support and opposition in the communist containment agenda of American non-governmental organizations and in the educational policies of the British colonial government. By examining the cooperation and struggle between these three parties, this study sheds light on postwar Hong Kong, a divided China, British imperial ambitions in Asia, and the intersecting global dynamics of modernization, cultural identity, and the Cold War.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introducing New Asia -- Chapter One Chinese Identity in Exile: Constructing Cultural Education at New Asia -- Chapter Two Containing Communism and Promoting Culture: The Investment of American Nongovernmental Organizations -- Chapter Three Colonial Policy and Cultural Evaluation: Chinese Higher Education in Postwar Hong Kong -- Chapter Four Negotiating a Chinese University: Symbols, Standards, and Content -- Epilogue New Asia and the Chinese University -- The Meanings of New Asia -- Bibliography -- Index.