Changing paradigms of Christian higher education in China, 1888-1950

This work seeks to consider the role that Christian colleges played in the modern history of China. It is written by two scholars from China and two from Hong Kong, and therefore it should represent an international outlook on the set of problems it addresses. The significant aspects of Christian higher education in China during the Republican Period (1912-1949) is highlighted, especially the fading of religious and theological education, and the paradoxical growth at some of these foreign-established institutions of high quality academic programmes in Chinese studies.