Reconceptualizing the Study of Christian Universities in the Republican Era in Today's China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3297809 |
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| Authors | Peter Tze Ming Ng (0000-0002-9817-2702, Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15010103 |
| OpenAlex | W4390788755 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
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 xixue to guoxue), 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
China · Contextualization · Indigenization · Internationalization · Political science · Restructuring · Sinicization · Sociology · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Religious Education and Schools
| Highly cited | No |
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