China's Christian Colleges - by Daniel Bays & Widmer (Hardcover)

About the Book

A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.

Book Synopsis

A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work.

Review Quotes

"China's Christian Colleges is an important reference work. It is authoritative, balanced and insightful, and should be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Sino-American encounters and the development of modern education in China."--Joseph Tse-Hei Lee "The China Journal"

"Daniel Bays has done it again, this time with a co-editor, Ellen Widmer. He has put together yet another wonderfully researched, well organized, and carefully and beautifully written set of articles that deal with, in this case, various aspects of education system that were a major part of the larger Wester missionary enterprise in China."--Murray Rubinstein "Church History."

"Marking the beginning of a new era of scholarship on China's Christian colleges, this book breaks with the self-congratulatory scholarship of earlier culture-bound studies and goes beyond more recent work by emphasizing cultural interaction. The volume's contributors explore Christian colleges not as gifts of a benevolent West to a benighted China but as focal points of intercultural interflow."--John W. Israel, Professor Emeritus of History "University of Virginia"

"The diverse essays in this volume represent an excellent contribution to the ongoing study of their cross-cultural impact, both in China and in the United States."--International Bulletin of Missionary Research

About the Author

Daniel H. Bays is the Spoelhof Chair, Professor of History, and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Calvin College. Ellen Widmer is the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wellesley College.