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11%OFFDaniel Bays - China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 - 9780804759496 - V9780804759496
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China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950

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Description for China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 tables, 14 figures, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804759496
SKU
V9780804759496
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99-50

About Daniel Bays
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.

Reviews for China’s Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950
"China's Christian Colleges is an important reference work. It is authoritative, balanced and insightful, and should be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Sino-American encounters and the development of modern education in China."—Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, The China Journal "Daniel Bays has done it again, this time with a co-editor, Ellen Widmer. He has put together yet another ... Read more

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