China's Christian colleges : cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950
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China's Christian colleges : cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950
Stanford University Press, c2009
- : cloth
- : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
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Library, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization図
: pbkAECC||378||C1117311366
Note
Bibliography: p. [371]-393
Includes index
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Description
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 campuses, most of which were American-supported and had a distinctly American flavor, were laboratories or incubators of mutual cultural interaction that has been very rare in modern Chinese history. In this Sino-foreign cultural territory, the collaborative educational endeavor between Westerners and Chinese created a highly unusual degree of cultural hybridity in some Americans and Chinese. The thirteen essays of the book provide concrete examples of why even today, more than a half-century after the colleges were taken over by the state, long-lasting cultural results of life in the colleges remain.
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