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Title Transmitting the ideal of enlightenment : Chinese Universities since the late Nineteenth Century / edited by Ricardo K. S. Mak
Published Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 155 p.)
Contents Transmitting The Ideal of Enlightenment -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Chinese Idea of University, 1866-1895 -- Chapter 3 The German Intellectual Tradition, Cai Yuanpei and the Founding of Peking University -- Chapter 4 The Formation of Qinghua Alumni's Networks in National Southeast University, 1918-1928 -- Chapter 5 Revolution and Enlightenment: The Rise of Biomedical Education in China, 1910-1950 -- Chapter 6 Higher Education and Research Culture in Hong Kong: With Special Reference to Medical Education, Research and Professionalism, 1880s-1980s -- Chapter 7 Whose Rationality? Whose Enlightenment? -- Missionary-scholars, Modern Universities and the Dialectical Moments in the Emergence of Philosophy and Religious Studies in Twentieth Century China -- Chapter 8 A Historical Review and Reflection on the Confucian "Great Learning" and its Contemporary Implications for Higher Education -- Index -- About the Contributors
Summary This book is a collection of articles on different aspects of university education in China since the late nineteenth century, addressing how far the ideal of modern university education, which has gradually been developed in the West since the age of European Enlightenment, was adopted or transformed by Chinese universities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Education, Higher -- China -- History -- 19th century
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher.
Universität
China.
China
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Mai, Jingsheng
LC no. 2021679006
ISBN 9780761847281
0761847286