China's Christian Colleges

by Bays, Daniel H.

• ISBN13: 9780804759496
• ISBN10: 0804759499
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-27
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

China's Christian Collegesexplores 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.

Author Biography

Daniel H. Bays is the Spoelhof Chair, Professor of History, and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Calvin College. Ellen Widmer is the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wellesley College.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Preface: China's Christian Colleges as Cross-Cultural Ventures	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
"The Call": The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions	p. 1
The SVM and Transformation of the Protestant Mission to China	p. 3
Foundations of the College Enterprise	p. 23
American Geometries and the Architecture of Christian Campuses in China	p. 27
Science, Religion, and the Classics in Christian Higher Education to 1920	p. 57
The Seven Sisters and China, 1900-1950	p. 83
Curriculum and Careers	p. 103
Liberal Arts Education in English and Campus Culture at St. John's University	p. 107
The Professionalization of Chinese Domesticity: Ava B. Milam and Home Economics at Yenching University	p. 125
Anglo-American Law at Soochow University	p. 147
From Lingnan to Pomona: Charles K. Edmunds and His Chinese American Career	p. 173
Wider Ramifications	p. 189
National Salvation: Teaching Civic Duty in China's Christian Colleges	p. 193
Same Bed, Different Dreams: The American Postwar Plan for China's Christian Colleges, 1943-1946	p. 218
China's Christian Colleges and the Founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute	p. 241
Beyond China	p. 267
A Japanese American Enterprise: Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr Network and the Founding of Tsuda College	p. 271
Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey	p. 287
Postface: This Volume in the Context of Evolving International Scholarship	p. 303
Notes	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 395
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