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Zhao, Kang – History of Education Review, 2021
Purpose: Some studies have claimed that Chinese thinker Hu Shi (or Hu Shih) received and responded to John Dewey's educational ideas only at a theoretical level and did little for education at a practical level. This paper reexamines Hu's reception of Dewey's ideas with a focus on how he used those ideas to solve China's educational and social…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Theories, Western Civilization, Educational Practices
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Liu, Qing – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
While educating international students is celebrated as a means of promoting mutual understanding among nations, American higher education has always been entangled with geopolitics. This essay focuses on Tang Tsou, the Chinese scholar who came to the United States as a student in 1941, eventually becoming the nation's leading China expert and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Political Science, Foreign Students, Educational History
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Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Studies in Continuing Education, 2009
Prior to 1949 the Chinese Communist Party orchestrated innovative and participatory forms of adult education. This article concerns Madame Li Li, a leading Chinese Communist woman adult educator. Western delegates at the International Council for Adult Education 1984 Shanghai symposium on adult education were fascinated by Madame Li Li because,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Adult Educators, Adult Education
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Hawkins, John N. – Paedogogica Historica, 1973
The life and career of Francis Pott is in many ways an example of that final attempt by the Christian West to transmit to China its values, goals, and aspirations. (Author)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Biographies, Christianity, Clergy
Feuer, Lewis S. – Teachers Coll Rec, 1969
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Humanities