The Alienated Academy

The Alienated Academy
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 472
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ISBN-10 : 9781684172863
ISBN-13 : 1684172861
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Synopsis The Alienated Academy by : Wen-hsin Yeh

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.

The Alienated Academy

The Alienated Academy
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Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Total Pages : 476
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ISBN-10 : 0674002849
ISBN-13 : 9780674002845
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Alienated Academy by : Wen-Hsin Yeh

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.

The Alienated Academy

The Alienated Academy
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Total Pages : 674
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:C2933435
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Synopsis The Alienated Academy by : Wen-Hsing Yeh

The Alienated Academic

The Alienated Academic
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9783319943046
ISBN-13 : 3319943049
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Synopsis The Alienated Academic by : Richard Hall

Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the market, mean that academics and students are increasingly alienated from themselves and their work. This book applies Marx’s concept of alienation to the realities of academic life in the Global North, in order to explore how the idea of public education is subsumed under the law of value. In a landscape of increased commodification of higher education, the book explores the relationship between alienation and crisis, before analysing how academic knowledge, work, identity and life are themselves alienated. Finally, it argues that through indignant struggle, another world is possible, grounded in alternative forms of organising life and producing socially-useful knowledge, ultimately requiring the abolition of academic labour. This pioneering work will be of interest and value to all those working in the higher education sector, as well as those concerned with the rise of neoliberalism and marketization within universities.

The Alienated Academy

The Alienated Academy
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:610228578
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Synopsis The Alienated Academy by : Wen-Hsin Yeh

Schools Into Fields and Factories

Schools Into Fields and Factories
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Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015022031747
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Synopsis Schools Into Fields and Factories by : Ming K. Chan

"In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education. Under the slogan "Turn schools into fields and factories, fields and factories into schools," the university attempted to bridge the gap between intellectual and manual labor which its founders saw as a central problem of capitalism and which remains a persistent theme in Chinese revolutionary thinking ... The authors bring to bear the perspectives of institutional and intellectual history on their examination of the structure and operation of the university, presenting new material on its faculty, curriculum, physical plant, and history. They demonstrate how the prominent features and problems of Chinese higher education during the early years of the Guomindang regime prefigure the Marxist program of the Cultural Revolution and continue to have an influence on revolutionary thinking in the situation of China today"--Jacket.

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China

Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 533
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ISBN-10 : 9780429796692
ISBN-13 : 0429796692
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China by : Qiliang He

Offering an entirely new approach to understanding China’s journalism history, this book covers the Chinese periodical press in the first half of the twentieth century. By focusing on five cases, either occurring in or in relation to the year 1917, this book emphasizes the protean nature of the newspaper and seeks to challenge a press historiography which suggests modern Chinese newspapers were produced and consumed with clear agendas of popularizing enlightenment, modernist, and revolutionary concepts. Instead, this book contends that such a historiography, which is premised on the classification of newspapers along the lines of their functions, overlooks the opaqueness of the Chinese press in the early twentieth century. Analyzing modern Chinese history through the lens of the newspaper, this book presents an interdisciplinary and international approach to studying mass communications. As such, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese history, journalism, and Asian Studies more generally.

China's Universities, 1895-1995

China's Universities, 1895-1995
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 473
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ISBN-10 : 9781351387439
ISBN-13 : 135138743X
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis China's Universities, 1895-1995 by : Ruth Hayhoe

This reissue (1996) provides an in-depth analysis of the development of the Chinese university during the twentieth century – a period of momentous social, economic, cultural and political change. It brings together reflections on the Chinese university and its role in the two great experiments of modern China: Nationalist efforts to create a modern state as part of capitalist modernisation, and the Communist project of socialist construction under Soviet tutelage. In addition to these two frames of discourse, other models and patterns are examined: for instance, the persistence of cultural patterns, or Maoist revolutionary thought.

"Kingdom-Minded" People

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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9789004204027
ISBN-13 : 9004204024
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis "Kingdom-Minded" People by : Denise Austin

This book explores how Christian identity motivated early twentieth century Chinese business Christians toward economic, social and religious contributions in China and beyond. Parallels are also revealed today, particularly through the influence of Pentecostal, charismatic and evangelical training.