Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei: Educator of Modern China In the broadest sense, this intellectual biography is designed to give insight into the reasons why Western values and institutions (especially in education) failed to take root in the Chinese environ
| Title | : | Ts'ai Yuan-p'ei: Educator of Modern China |
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271024518 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2003-10-02 |
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Editorial : About the AuthorWilliam J. Duiker is the author of The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900–1941 (1976) and The Comintern and Vietnamese Communism (1975). A former foreign service officer in Taiwan and Vietnam, he took his PhD in Far Eastern History at Georgetown, and now teaches History at Penn State.
In the broadest sense, this intellectual biography is designed to give insight into the reasons why Western values and institutions (especially in education) failed to take root in the Chinese environment. Three interrelated themes are treated by Professor Duiker: the evolution of the Chinese educational system from the beginning of the 20th century to World War II; the process by which a Chinese intellectual absorbed Western values and attitudes while retaining significant elements of his traditional Confucian world view; the goals of the humanist movement in early republican China and the reasons for its failure.Ts'ai (1868–1940), as first Minister of Education under the 1912 republic, helped to formulate educational policies during an important stage of transition in modern China. Later, as chancellor of Peking University, he was a central figure in the tumultuous events of the May Fourth period. Having been educated traditionally to the doctoral (chin shih) level bef
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