[PDF] Christian Higher Education In Changing China 1880 1950 eBook

Author : Nicolas Standaert
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004114300

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The second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 to the present day, dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects.

Author : Peter Tze Ming Ng 吳梓明
Publisher : IIHSDPress (New York).com, Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,84 MB
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN :

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The theme of this volume is: "The Sinification of Christianity", a concept which emerged from the study of the history of Christian higher education in China over the past 30 years. It starts with the fact that when the Protestant missionaries first came to China they hoped to "Christianize China." However, if the process of Christianizing China were to succeed, Christianity first had to accommodate itself to the Chinese culture and society, i.e. to undergo a processes of "contextualization", "indigenization" and "Sinification" in order to survive on Chinese soil. Eventually, it evolved into a new form of Christianity. Over the past thirty years, there is a drastic shift of paradigms and the broadening of perspectives in the study of Christian higher education in China. It was a process of Sinification of both the Christian colleges and universities in the Republican China era (1911-1949) and the study of the history of these Christian colleges and universities by Chinese scholars since the 1980s.

Author : Daniel Bays
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0804759499

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A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.

Author : Daniel Bays
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0804759480

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A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.

Author : Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004285245

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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.

Author : James Reardon-Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521533256

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When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, 'the study of change'. In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the introduction and development of chemistry in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examines the impact of the science on language reform, education, industry, research, culture, society, and politics. Throughout the book, Professor Reardon-Anderson sets the advance of chemistry in the broader context of the development of science in China and the social and political changes of this era. His thesis is that science fared well at times when a balance was struck between political authority and free social development. Based on Chinese and English sources, the narrative moves from detailed descriptions of particular chemical processes and innovations to more general discussions of intellectual and social history, and provides a fascinating account of an important episode in the intellectual history of modern China.