China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 - Paperback

China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses, most of which were American-supported and had a distinctly American flavor, were laboratories or incubators of mutual cultural interaction that has been very rare in modern Chinese history. In this Sino-foreign cultural territory, the collaborative educational endeavor between Westerners and Chinese created a highly unusual degree of cultural hybridity in some Americans and Chinese. The thirteen essays of the book provide concrete examples of why even today, more than a half-century after the colleges were taken over by the state, long-lasting cultural results of life in the colleges remain.

• | Author: Daniel Bays
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 27, 2009
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0804759499
• | ISBN-13: 9780804759496