1st Edition
A History of Higher Education Exchange China and America
By Teresa Brawner Bevis
Copyright 2014
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China’s imperial leaders made a historic decision—to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland’s borders. In time, an acquisition of science and technology from the rapidly-industrializing West would enable China to modernize its still-feudal economy and outdated military, thus... Read more
1. The Back Story 2. The Runaway 3. The Chinese Educational Mission 4. Righteous and Harmonious Fists 5. A Random Grafting of Twigs 6. The Mao Years 7. A Third Wave 8. China’s New Academic Face 9. Leaning Toward Mid-Century
Biography
Teresa Bevis is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art at Crowder College, MO.
"Bevis has given us a useful account of an under-documented phenomenon." - Hilary Perraton Cambridge, History of Education, Journal of the History of Education Society, Sept 2016
