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As the first co-educational institution of higher learning in China, Lingnan University made monumental strides in the education of Christian women, and it created a viable alternative to traditional Chinese models. Wang contends that Lingnan University found ways to adapt and 'layer' a Christian presence at a time when the nationalization and secularization of higher education was making rapid headway.
List of contents
Chapter 1 The Setting: Honglok, Guangzhou, and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University) Chapter 2 Cultural Migration: Lingnan as a Foreign and Local Institution Chapter 3 Financing God's Higher Education: Management and Governance Chapter 4 The Advance to Higher Education: Women's Education, Power and Modernization Chapter 5 From Lingnan to Pomona: Charles K. Edmunds and His Chinese-American Career Chapter 6 Conclusion: Memories and Legacies of Lingnan
About the author
Dong Wang PhD is a historian of China, U.S.-Chinese relations, geopolitics, and geoculture. She is visiting fellow at Freie Universität in Berlin, research associate at the Harvard Fairbank Center (since 2002), a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Her books in English include The United States and China (2021, 2nd rev. ed. of 2013), Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage (2020), Managing God's Higher Learning (2007), and China's Unequal Treaties (2005).
Summary
Argues that as the first co-educational institution of higher learning in China, Lingnan University found ways to adapt and layer a Christian presence at a time when the nationalization and secularization of higher education was making rapid headway.
