
- 432 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Table of Figures
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Preface: China’s Christian Colleges as Cross-Cultural Ventures
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE - “The Call”: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
- PART TWO - Foundations of the College Enterprise
- PART THREE - Curriculum and Careers
- PART FOUR - Wider Ramifications
- PART FIVE - Beyond China
- Postface: This Volume in the Context of Evolving International Scholarship
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index