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Alienated Academy: Culture And Politics In Republican China, 1919-1937
Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin
Hardback; Book
472 pages
Published: November 2000
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674002849

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and ofthe introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled ittoward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs.Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculCulture and Politics in Republican China, 1919-1937.


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