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Confucianism, colonialism, and the Cold War : Chinese cultural education at Hong Kong's New Asia College, 1949-76 / Grace Ai-Ling Chou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chou, Grace Ai-Ling.
- Series:
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; 4.
- Ideas, history, and modern China ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Higher education and state--China--Hong Kong.
- Higher education and state.
- Cold War.
- Chinese University of Hong Kong. New Asia College--History--20th century.
- Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introducing New Asia
- Chapter One Chinese Identity in Exile: Constructing Cultural Education at New Asia
- Chapter Two Containing Communism and Promoting Culture: The Investment of American Nongovernmental Organizations
- Chapter Three Colonial Policy and Cultural Evaluation: Chinese Higher Education in Postwar Hong Kong
- Chapter Four Negotiating a Chinese University: Symbols, Standards, and Content
- Epilogue New Asia and the Chinese University
- The Meanings of New Asia
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31079-1
- 9786613310798
- 90-04-21734-7
- OCLC:
- 758335992
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004217348 DOI
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