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Christianity and Education in Modern China
A close look at the effects of Christianity on contemporary Chinese education.
In Christianity and Education in Modern China, the contributors demonstrate how Christianity served as a driving force in the development of modern education in China. Each essay offers new insights into Christian influence on education in modern China while examining how Christian missionaries and Chinese Christian educators interacted with China's social, cultural, and political contexts. They also explore how the legacies of Christian higher education affected higher education in mainland China, Taiwan, and Asia at large. On the whole, this volume compares the Western missionary and Chinese Christian perspectives with rich historiographical acumen by offering original case studies to examine Christianity’s impact on education in modern China.
In Christianity and Education in Modern China, the contributors demonstrate how Christianity served as a driving force in the development of modern education in China. Each essay offers new insights into Christian influence on education in modern China while examining how Christian missionaries and Chinese Christian educators interacted with China's social, cultural, and political contexts. They also explore how the legacies of Christian higher education affected higher education in mainland China, Taiwan, and Asia at large. On the whole, this volume compares the Western missionary and Chinese Christian perspectives with rich historiographical acumen by offering original case studies to examine Christianity’s impact on education in modern China.
304 pages | 2 halftones, 3 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2025
Education: History of Education
History: Asian History
Religion: Christianity
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction p1
WONG Man Kong and George Kam Wah MAK
Part One: The Contexts
1. Everything Is My Concern: Characterizing Modern Chinese Education p17
Thomas H. C. LEE
2. The Crisis of Mission Education in Republican China, 1922–1929:
The Case of Harold Henry Rowley p34
Brian STANLEY
Part Two: Christian Educators
3. “Going Forth to Teach, We Shall Have Learnt”: F. S. Drake at Shantung
Christian University/Cheeloo University and His Embrace of Chinese
Culture p53
Wai Luen KWOK
4. Christianity and Medical Education in China in the Second World War:
Gordon King and His Wartime Adventures and the Interconnectedness
between China and Hong Kong p75
WONG Man Kong
5. Christian Efforts in Mass Education of Republican China: Zhang Xueyan
and Xie Songgao’s Christian Literary Work as Examples p90
CHEN Jianming
6. An Unfulfilled Ideal: Zhu Jingnong’s Educational Ideas and Practices p112
Jiafeng LIU
Part Three: New Initiatives
7. A Project of National Transformation in China: Yu Rizhang’s Promotion
of Social Education p145
Peter Chen-main WANG
8. A Protestant Response to the Drive for Mass Literacy in Early Republican
China: The Phonetic Promotion Committee and Its Work, 1918–1922 p168
George Kam Wah MAK
9. A College Student’s Rural Journey: Early Sociology and Anthropology in
China Seen through Fieldwork on Sichuan’s Secret Society p195
Di WANG
Part Four: The Legacies
10. Extracting the Essence of Sino-Western Interaction: Insights from the
Educational Endeavors of Chinese Christian Colleges p227
MA Min
11. A Competitive Advantage in Higher Education: The Practice and
Realization of Whole-Person Education at Chung Yuan Christian
University p249
Leah Yiya LEE
12. Developing the Whole Person: Revisiting the History and Mission of
Christian Higher Education in Asia p266
Wai Ching Angela WONG
List of Contributors p287
Index p290
Acknowledgments viii
Introduction p1
WONG Man Kong and George Kam Wah MAK
Part One: The Contexts
1. Everything Is My Concern: Characterizing Modern Chinese Education p17
Thomas H. C. LEE
2. The Crisis of Mission Education in Republican China, 1922–1929:
The Case of Harold Henry Rowley p34
Brian STANLEY
Part Two: Christian Educators
3. “Going Forth to Teach, We Shall Have Learnt”: F. S. Drake at Shantung
Christian University/Cheeloo University and His Embrace of Chinese
Culture p53
Wai Luen KWOK
4. Christianity and Medical Education in China in the Second World War:
Gordon King and His Wartime Adventures and the Interconnectedness
between China and Hong Kong p75
WONG Man Kong
5. Christian Efforts in Mass Education of Republican China: Zhang Xueyan
and Xie Songgao’s Christian Literary Work as Examples p90
CHEN Jianming
6. An Unfulfilled Ideal: Zhu Jingnong’s Educational Ideas and Practices p112
Jiafeng LIU
Part Three: New Initiatives
7. A Project of National Transformation in China: Yu Rizhang’s Promotion
of Social Education p145
Peter Chen-main WANG
8. A Protestant Response to the Drive for Mass Literacy in Early Republican
China: The Phonetic Promotion Committee and Its Work, 1918–1922 p168
George Kam Wah MAK
9. A College Student’s Rural Journey: Early Sociology and Anthropology in
China Seen through Fieldwork on Sichuan’s Secret Society p195
Di WANG
Part Four: The Legacies
10. Extracting the Essence of Sino-Western Interaction: Insights from the
Educational Endeavors of Chinese Christian Colleges p227
MA Min
11. A Competitive Advantage in Higher Education: The Practice and
Realization of Whole-Person Education at Chung Yuan Christian
University p249
Leah Yiya LEE
12. Developing the Whole Person: Revisiting the History and Mission of
Christian Higher Education in Asia p266
Wai Ching Angela WONG
List of Contributors p287
Index p290