1st Edition

Educating China in Europe Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modernity, 1907-1946

By Hongling Liang Copyright 2027
188 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers the first comprehensive study of cosmopolitanism in education between China and Europe from the late Qing to the Republican period. Drawing on previously untapped archives, it examines transnational Sino-French educational initiatives led by the World Society, an anarchist learning association, from 1907 to 1946. Readers gain insight into the journals published in France that... Read more

Introduction  1. Education as revolution: Theorising education and learning in Xin Shiji (1907–1910)  2. Cultivating autonomous and well-rounded individuals: Educating Chinese workers in Europe  3. From anarcho-cosmopolitan education to a nationalist turn  4. Education and learning in a ‘civilising’ school: The Sino-French Institute of Lyon (1921–1946)  Epilogue and conclusion  

Biography

Hongling Liang is a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. She previously held academic and research positions at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, the City University of Hong Kong, and University Lyon (Jean Moulin). Her research focuses on modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, with particular emphasis on the transnational connections between China and Europe in the early twentieth century. Drawing on sources in Chinese, French, and English, her work explores the circulation of ideas across linguistic and cultural boundaries.