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1 online resource (430 pages) |
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Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Preface: China's Christian Colleges as Cross-Cultural Ventures; Acknowledgments; Part I: "The Call": the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions; 1. The SVM and Transformation of the Protestant Mission to China; Part II. Foundations of the College Enterprise; 2. American Geometries and the Architecture of Christian Campuses in China; 3. Science, Religion, and the Classics in Christian Higher Education to 1920; Part III. Curriculum and Careers; 5. Liberal Arts Education in English and Campus Culture at St. John's University |
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6. The Professionalization of Chinese Domesticity: Ava B. Milam and Home Economics at Yenching University7. Anglo-American Law at Soochow University; 8. From Lingnan to Pomona: Charles K. Edmunds and His Chinese American Career; Part IV. Wider Ramifications; 9. National Salvation: Teaching Civic Duty in China's Christian Colleges; 10. Same Bed, Different Dreams: The American Postwar Plan for China's Christian Colleges, 1943-1946; 11. China's Christian Colleges and the Founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute; Part V. Beyond China |
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12. A Japanese American Enterprise: Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr Network and the Founding of Tsuda College13. Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey; Postface: This Volume in the Contex tof Evolving International Scholarship; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Christian universities and colleges -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Education, Higher -- China -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
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Christian universities and colleges
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Education, Higher
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International relations
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China -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses
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United States -- Relations -- China -- Congresses
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China
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United States
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Widmer, Ellen
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| ISBN |
9780804776325 |
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0804776326 |
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