Jianghan Tiance Lin (Central China University)

Author: Zhang Anming, Liu Zufen
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Publishing Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Chinese missionary universities are products of modern Sino-Western cultural exchange, and their development and transformation are an important part of the history of this exchange. Although the number of Chinese missionary universities is not large, they have played a certain role in the modernization of Chinese education, cultivating a group of outstanding professionals and thus having a profound impact on Chinese academia and society. At the same time, for many Westerners, missionary universities have also served as a window to observe and understand Chinese culture and society. Today, in the 21st century, we review the history of Chinese missionary universities with a calm and prudent attitude, which can also be seen as reopening a window to understand the history of cultural exchange in modern Chinese education. Central China University, as a missionary university, has walked a difficult and winding path in its long history of running the school. This book attempts to objectively and truthfully reflect the traditions, style, and pursuit of Central China University through a combination of text and images, focusing on both the vertical history and the horizontal history, in order to recreate the "spirit of democracy, law-abiding, and responsibility" of Central China University, and thereby experience the convergence, integration, and inheritance of Sino-Western cultures here.