Managing God's Higher Learning

U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952

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Dong Wang

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Managing God’s Higher Learning offers a distinct empirical study of Lingnan University and addresses issues of adaptation and integration. Author, Dong Wang, demonstrates that many aspects of Lingnan — governance, links with the local society, financial management, education for women — have either never been made the subject of scholarly discussion or are different from what we think we know about U.S.-China relations in the past. As the first co-educational institution of higher learning in China, Lingnan made monumental strides in the management of programs for women, a fact which confounds the assumptions made by China historians. The author argues that Lingnan’s growth, resilience and success can partly be accounted for by entrepreneurial operations. Wang also contends that Lingnan found ways to adapt and "layer" a Christian presence at a time when the nationalization and secularization of higher education was making rapid headway. Based on information from archives located across the Pacific, this book will appeal to scholars of Chinese history as well as those interested in Sino-American relations.

Author Biography:

Dong Wang is chair professor of contemporary Chinese history and director of the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku in Finland.She is the author of China’s Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (Lexington Books, 2005), among other publications. Her two ongoing book projects examine the history of United States-China relations and the social transformation of Luoyang, China from antiquity to the present, respectively.

Release date NZ

June 15th, 2007

Author

Dong Wang

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

226

Dimensions

161x240x20

ISBN-13

9780739119358

Product ID

5863927

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