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In Fusion of East and West, Limin Bai presents a major work in the English language that focuses on Chinese textbooks and the education of children for a new China in a critical transitional period, 1902–1915. This study examines the life and work of Wang Hengtong (1868–1928), a Chinese Christian educator, and other Christian and secular writings through a historical and comparative lens and against the backdrop of the socio-political, ideological, and intellectual frameworks of the time. By doing so, it offers a fresh perspective on the significant connection between Christian education, Chinese Christian educators and the birth of a modern educational system. It unravels a cross-cultural process whereby missionary education and the Chinese education system were mutually re-shaped.
Price: $175.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: East and West
Publication Date:
29 August 2019
ISBN: 9789004411012
Format: Hardcover
"As the title suggests, in Fusion of East and West: Children, Education, and a New China, 1902–1915, Limin Bai argues that children’s primers in the new republic combined elements from both East and West during a pivotal period of political change in modern China. Bai recovers the importance and influence of Chinese Christian educators, and she suggests that secular leaders like Liang Qichao may have been influenced by Christians even when they denied such influences themselves or sought equivalents in the Chinese tradition... Bai provides important factual considerations and methodological insights into figuring out how these elements operated just before the dawn of China’s educational revolution.
- Margaret Mih Tillman, Journal of Chinese History, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (July 2022).
- Margaret Mih Tillman, Journal of Chinese History, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (July 2022).
Limin Bai, Ph.D. (1994), Victoria University of Wellington, is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at that university. She has published extensively on Chinese history, society and education in both English and Chinese, including Shaping the Ideal Child (CUP, 2005).