A history of higher education exchange [electronic resource] : China and America / Teresa Brawner Bevis.
Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China's imperial leaders made a historic decision-to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland's borders. In time, an acquisition of science and technology from the rapidly-ind...
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The back story
- 2. The runaway
- 3. The Chinese educational mission
- 4. Righteous and harmonious fists
- 5. A random grafting of twigs
- 6. The Mao years
- 7. A third wave
- 8. China's new academic face
- 9. Leaning toward mid-century.