Introduction: Liberal Arts Education, the normal university and current scholarship on the heritage of China’s Christian universities

Ng, P. T. M., Mou, L. and Hayhoe, R. (2023) Introduction: Liberal Arts Education, the normal university and current scholarship on the heritage of China’s Christian universities. In: Ng, P. T. M., Mou, L. and Hayhoe, R. (eds.) Liberal Arts and the Legacy of China’s Christian Universities. Series: East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education. Springer, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9789819900695 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-0067-1_1)

Abstract

This book brings together English translations of thirteen research papers published in Mainland China in recent years by historians, sociologists and educators who have investigated various dimensions of China’s sixteen Christian universities established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These institutions did path-breaking teaching, research, and community service across China up to the early 1950s, when the new Communist government decided to close them and integrate their faculty and facilities into the new socialist system of higher education. It is surprising that now, seventy years later, the legacy of these institutions continues to inspire higher education reform in China and there is an ongoing scholarship that draws on archival sources in China, Europe, and North America to elaborate on their value.

• Item Type: Book Sections (Introduction)
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mou, Dr Leping
• Authors: Ng, P. T. M., Mou, L., and Hayhoe, R.
• Subjects: L Education > L Education (General); L Education > LA History of education
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Culture, Literacies, Inclusion & Pedagogy
• Publisher: Springer
• ISBN: 9789819900695