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China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 (review)

China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 (review) Reviews Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer, editors. China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900­1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxii, 405 pp. Paperback $24.95, isbn 978-0-8047-5949-6. Daniel Bays and Ellen Widmer dedicate their volume to Jessie G. Lutz, one of the first American scholars to write critically and systematically about Christian colleges in China (China and the Christian Colleges, 1850-1950 [Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971]). Half a decade after Lutz's book, Philip West's extensive case study of Yenching University was published (Yenching University and SinoWestern Relations, 1916­1952 [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976]). West's book gave us a paradigm for intercultural interaction at institutions of higher learning in China. Yenching University was cooperatively established by Protestant Christian mission agencies in the United States and Canada. At the time of China's Cultural Revolution (1966­1976) and subsequently, most Western scholars who were not specialists in religion, with their tendency to shy away from nonquantifiable subjects, too easily accepted the People's Republic of China's accusations that Christian colleges were institutions of Western (largely North American but also British) cultural imperialism. They dismissed these schools and those involved in them. Following the economic reforms of the People's Republic of China http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 (review)

Woo, Franklin J.
China Review International , Volume 16 (1) – Sep 15, 2009
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Reviews Daniel H. Bays and Ellen Widmer, editors. China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900­1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxii, 405 pp. Paperback $24.95, isbn 978-0-8047-5949-6. Daniel Bays and Ellen Widmer dedicate their volume to Jessie G. Lutz, one of the first American scholars to write critically and systematically about Christian colleges in China (China and the Christian Colleges, 1850-1950 [Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1971]). Half a decade after Lutz's book, Philip West's extensive case study of Yenching University was published (Yenching University and SinoWestern Relations, 1916­1952 [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976]). West's book gave us a paradigm for intercultural interaction at institutions of higher learning in China. Yenching University was cooperatively established by Protestant Christian mission agencies in the United States and Canada. At the time of China's Cultural Revolution (1966­1976) and subsequently, most Western scholars who were not specialists in religion, with their tendency to shy away from nonquantifiable subjects, too easily accepted the People's Republic of China's accusations that Christian colleges were institutions of Western (largely North American but also British) cultural imperialism. They dismissed these schools and those involved in them. Following the economic reforms of the People's Republic of China

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