China and the Christian colleges, 1850-1950 / Jessie Gregory Lutz.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-556) and index.

Contents: Preface -- I. Confrontation in China -- II. Nineteenth-Century Origins -- III. An Educational Alternative -- IV. Expansion and Consolidation in an Era of Change, 1895-1925 -- V. Special Emphases -- VI. Educational Response in an Era of Change -- VII. The Challenge of Chinese Nationalism, 1919-1930 -- VIII. Sinification and Secularization, the 1930's -- IX. The College and the Student Movement of the 1930's -- X. The Impact of the War, 1937-1945 -- XI. Civil Conflict and the Politicizing of College Youth, 1945-1948 -- XII. Amalgamation -- XIII. Assessments -- List of China Christian Colleges -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Gender, culture, and Christianity : American Protestant mission schools in China, 1880-1930 / Gael Graham.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.

Between 1880 and 1930, Christian schools established in China by American Protestant missionaries were at the peak of their popularity and autonomy. During these years, a burgeoning professional ethos and the desire to compete with native schools led to the steady secularization of the mission schools. Americans also used these schools in a campaign to alter the gender beliefs and customs of the Chinese. The emergence of Chinese nationalism and rapid social change in the 1920s, however, caused American teaching missionaries to question their role in China.

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"Making knowledge in the local settings : vernacular education and Cantonese elementary textbooks" / Chen Sixing 陳思行.

Religions 15 (2024).

This article belongs to the Special Issue Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts: In Memory of Our Mentor Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019).

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Abstract:

A growing number of Protestant missionaries engaged in vernacular education in the late nineteenth century. To meet the demands of the new era, Christian church education faced challenges not only in its curriculum design but also in the way it presented new knowledge. Previous studies have focused on church education at the tertiary level while overlooking the elementary level. This article discusses vernacular church education and vernacular textbooks at the elementary level in the late Qing, with specific reference to Youxue baoshen yaoyan 幼學保身要言 (The Human Body for Children). It argues that the demand for spreading new knowledge urged Protestant missionaries to compile vernacular textbooks and present Western knowledge in the local settings. Vernacular church education should be regarded as the precursor of indigenous education proposed by the late Qing Court. The local dialect, Cantonese in this case, bridged the linguistic gap between new terms and children’s cognition and became an effective means of presenting new knowledge. Vernacular textbooks had an unparalleled significance in the cultural sphere of dialect writing, since the language of textbooks could drastically influence the writing and reading habits of the young generation and further influence people’s attitudes towards dialects and dialect literature.