Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China
Why study China’s Christian universities in the Republican era today? Christian universities were brought by Western missionaries and evolved as an educational system in China at the beginning of the 20th century. They were eliminated during the restructuring of the Chinese higher education system i...
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| description | Why study China’s Christian universities in the Republican era today? Christian universities were brought by Western missionaries and evolved as an educational system in China at the beginning of the 20th century. They were eliminated during the restructuring of the Chinese higher education system in the early 1950s; however, Deng Xiaoping’s reform policies in the 1980s brought profound changes in China, encouraging Chinese scholars to bring back pre-1949 Christian higher education in China. Since then, new approaches and reconceptualizations have been developed, such as in the fields of Eastern–Western cultural exchange, interdisciplinary studies (from <i>xixue</i> to <i>guoxue</i>), and the adaptation of global and local perspectives. This paper is an attempt to report how the reconceptualizations of China’s Christian universities in the Republican era were brought about in the various processes of indigenization, contextualization, internationalization, Asianization, and Sinicization, with the subsequent development of a new legacy moving toward the Sinicization of Christian universities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-97cf947ed38f4bc49108fcd931395ac32024-01-26T18:15:01ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442024-01-0115110310.3390/rel15010103Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s ChinaPeter Tze Ming Ng0Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaWhy study China’s Christian universities in the Republican era today? Christian universities were brought by Western missionaries and evolved as an educational system in China at the beginning of the 20th century. They were eliminated during the restructuring of the Chinese higher education system in the early 1950s; however, Deng Xiaoping’s reform policies in the 1980s brought profound changes in China, encouraging Chinese scholars to bring back pre-1949 Christian higher education in China. Since then, new approaches and reconceptualizations have been developed, such as in the fields of Eastern–Western cultural exchange, interdisciplinary studies (from <i>xixue</i> to <i>guoxue</i>), and the adaptation of global and local perspectives. This paper is an attempt to report how the reconceptualizations of China’s Christian universities in the Republican era were brought about in the various processes of indigenization, contextualization, internationalization, Asianization, and Sinicization, with the subsequent development of a new legacy moving toward the Sinicization of Christian universities.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/1/103Christian universitiesRepublican ChinaindigenizationcontextualizationinternationalizationAsianization |
| spellingShingle | Peter Tze Ming Ng Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China Religions Christian universities Republican China indigenization contextualization internationalization Asianization |
| title | Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China |
| title_full | Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China |
| title_fullStr | Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China |
| title_short | Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today’s China |
| title_sort | reconceptualizing the study of christian universities in the republican era in today s china |
| topic | Christian universities Republican China indigenization contextualization internationalization Asianization |
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