Campus Digest

New book by staff (24 January 2025)

Friday, 24 January 2025

Christianity and Education in Modern China

ISBN: 978-988-8842-99-5 

Editors: Professor Timothy Wong Man-kong, Director of Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy, and Professor of the Department of History; Dr George Mak Kam-wah, Associate Professor of the Department of Religion and Philosophy

In Christianity and Education in Modern China, Professor Wong Man-kong, Dr George Mak Kam-wah, and other contributors demonstrate how Christianity served as a driving force in the development of modern education in China. Each of the chapters offers new insights into Christian involvement in different issues concerning education in modern China. The contributors examine how Christian missionaries and Chinese Christian educators interacted with China’s social, cultural, and political contexts. Also explored are the Christian legacies of higher education in mainland China and Taiwan, as well as how the spirit of Christian higher education in modern China has been carried on in Asia. This volume suggests that Western missionary and Chinese Christian perspectives of higher education were complementary with each other in modern China.