Confucianism, Colonialism, and the Cold War - Chinese Cultural Education at Hong Kong's New Asia College, 1949-63

The story of Hong Kong s New Asia College, from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reveals the efforts of a group of self-exiled intellectuals in establishing a Confucian-oriented higher education on the Chinese periphery. Their program of cultural education encountered both support and opposition in the communist containment agenda of American non-governmental organizations and in the educational policies of the British colonial government. By examining the cooperation and struggle between these three parties, this study sheds light on postwar Hong Kong, a divided China, British imperial ambitions in Asia, and the intersecting global dynamics of modernization, cultural identity, and the Cold War.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Ai-Ling Chou
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2011
• EAN: 9789004182479
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18247-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 246 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern Chi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions