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China's Christian colleges : cross-cultural connections, 1900-1950 / edited by Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer.

Contributor(s): Bays, Daniel H | Widmer, Ellen
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xxii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804759496 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0804759499 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): 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 -- CongressesDDC classification: 378.071/095109041 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The SVM and transformation of the Protestant mission to China / Terrill E. Lautz -- American geometries and the architecture of Christian campuses in China / Jeffrey W. Cody -- Science, religion, and the classics in Christian higher education to 1920 / Ryan Dunch -- The seven sisters and China, 1900-1950 / Ellen Widmer -- Liberal arts education in English and campus culture at St. John's University / Edward Yihua Xu -- The professionalization of Chinese domesticity : Ava B. Milam and home economics at Yenching University / Helen Schneider -- Anglo-American law at Soochow University / Alison W. Conner -- From Lingnan to Pomona : Charles K. Edmunds and his Chinese American career / Dong Wang -- National salvation : teaching civic duty in China's Christian colleges / Susan Rigdon -- Same bed, different dreams : the American postwar plan for China's Christian colleges, 1943-1946 / Jiafeng Liu -- China's Christian colleges and the founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute / Paul Daniel Waite and Peichi Tung Waite -- A Japanese American enterprise : Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr network and the founding of Tsuda College / Yuko Takahashi -- Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey / Ted Widmer.

Papers originally presented at a conference held Sept. 2003 at Wesleyan University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The SVM and transformation of the Protestant mission to China / Terrill E. Lautz -- American geometries and the architecture of Christian campuses in China / Jeffrey W. Cody -- Science, religion, and the classics in Christian higher education to 1920 / Ryan Dunch -- The seven sisters and China, 1900-1950 / Ellen Widmer -- Liberal arts education in English and campus culture at St. John's University / Edward Yihua Xu -- The professionalization of Chinese domesticity : Ava B. Milam and home economics at Yenching University / Helen Schneider -- Anglo-American law at Soochow University / Alison W. Conner -- From Lingnan to Pomona : Charles K. Edmunds and his Chinese American career / Dong Wang -- National salvation : teaching civic duty in China's Christian colleges / Susan Rigdon -- Same bed, different dreams : the American postwar plan for China's Christian colleges, 1943-1946 / Jiafeng Liu -- China's Christian colleges and the founding of the Harvard-Yenching Institute / Paul Daniel Waite and Peichi Tung Waite -- A Japanese American enterprise : Umeko Tsuda's Bryn Mawr network and the founding of Tsuda College / Yuko Takahashi -- Cyrus Hamlin in Turkey / Ted Widmer.

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