Education, culture and politics: The evolution of Chinese education at The University of Hong Kong, 1911–1941

Education, culture and politics: The evolution of Chinese education at The University of Hong Kong, 1911–1941

• Li, Lin East China Normal University

History of Education, 46(6), 711-729, 2017

Routledge

2017

• P 香港教育各層面與外地之比較
  • PA 香港教育史
• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GA 中文
• Q 教育體系與各級學校
  • QJ 個別教育機構、院校、研究機構等，如各大學

History Education Cultural Identity Higher Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) Confucianism -- 20th Century Imperialism British Colonies Asia Chinese Education Colonialism Confucianism The University of Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1900-1941

• 專上教育

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), following its establishment in 1911, has assumed the mission of bridging British and Chinese cultures, to prepare European and Chinese elite youth for political and other professional careers, and thus to improve Britain's cultural influence in competition with other western powers with regard to China. Dominated by its colonial character and pragmatic orientation, Chinese education at HKU was confined to no more than a supplementary subject at the initial stage. However, colonial crisis and cultural changes in the 1920s and 1930s, together with the endeavours of local cultural and commercial elites, made advanced Chinese education at HKU necessary and possible, and led to an independent unit for Chinese education and Chinese studies being established and strengthened. Organisational and curricular reforms before the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 led to further modernisation and solidified the structure of Chinese education at this university, laying the essential foundation for its post-war recovery and development. The evolution of Chinese education at HKU demonstrated well the subtle entanglements of education, culture and politics in a colonial context, through which coexistence and tensions between tradition and modernity, between China and the West, and between the imperial and republican intellectuals were also vividly revealed.
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• 英文

期刊論文

• 0046760X

• 10.1080/0046760X.2017.1360521

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/414978be

2018-06-14