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China's Christian colleges: cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950

edited by Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
Copyright:
©2009

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface. China's Christian Colleges as Cross-Cultural Ventures
  • 1. The SVM and Transformation of the Protestant Mission to China / Terrill E. Lautz
  • 2. American Geometries and the Architecture of Christian Campuses in China / Jeffrey W. Cody
  • 3. Science, Religion, and the Classics in Christian Higher Education to 1920 / Ryan Dunch
  • 4. The Seven Sisters and China, 1900-1950 / Ellen Widmer
  • 5. Liberal Arts Education in English and Campus Culture at St. John's University / Edward Yihua Xu
  • 6. The Professionalization of Chinese Domesticity: Ava B. Milam and Home Economics at Yenching University / Helen Schneider
  • 7. Anglo-American Law at Soochow University / Alison W. Conner
  • 8. From Lingnan to Pomona: Charles K. Edmunds and His Chinese American Career / Dong Wang
  • 9. National Salvation: Teaching Civic Duty in China's Christian Colleges / Susan Rigdon
  • 10. Same Bed, Different Dreams: The American Postwar Plan for China's Christian Colleges, 1943-1946 / Jiafeng Liu
  • 11. China's Christian Colleges and the Founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute / Paul Daniel Waite and Peichi Tung Waite
  • 12. A Japanese American Enterprise: Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr Network and the Founding of Tsuda College / Yuko Takahashi
  • 13. Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey / Ted Widmer
  • Postface. This Volume in the Context of Evolving International Scholarship.
Contributors:
Bays, Daniel H.
Widmer, Ellen
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Christian universities and colleges — China — History — 20th century — Congresses
Education, Higher — China — History — 20th century — Congresses
China — Relations — United States — Congresses
United States — Relations — China — Congresses
1900-1999
Education, Higher
Relations
Christian universities and colleges
United States
China
Genres:
History
Conference papers and proceedings
General Notes:
Papers originally presented at a conference held Sept. 2003 at Wesleyan University.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-393) and index.
Physical Description:
xxii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Numbers:
LC432.C6 C47 2009
ISBNs:
9780804759489 (cloth, alk. paper)
0804759480 (cloth, alk. paper)
9780804759496 (pbk., alk. paper)
0804759499 (pbk., alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2008050936
OCLC Numbers:
277118385