Ricardo K. S. Mak

Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment

Chinese Universities Since the Late Nineteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780761847267
• ISBN-10: 076184726X
• Artikelnr.: 26956731

Autorenporträt

Ricardo K. S. Mak received his Ph.D. in history and political science from the University of Regensburg, and is professor of history at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 2:
The Chinese Idea of University, 1866-1895 Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The German
Intellectual Tradition, Cai Yuanpei and the Founding of Peking University
Chapter 5 Chapter 4: The Formation of Qinghua Alumni's Networks in National
Southeast University, 1918-1928 Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Revolution and
Enlightenment: The Rise of Biomedical Education in China, 1910-1950 Chapter
7 Chapter 6: Higher Education and Research Culture in Hong Kong: With
Special Reference to Medical Education, Research and Professionalism,
1880s-1980s Chapter 8 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 9 Chapter 8: A Historical Review and Reflection on the Confucian
'Great Learning' and its Contemporary Implications for Higher Education