(Harvard–Yenching Library)
Yenching University: The Role of an American Christian University in the Rise and Fall of Liberal Arts Education in China
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023
McIntosh Center (UH 3999)
3 - 5 p.m.
- About The Lecture
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Yenching University: The Role of an American Christian University in the Rise and Fall of Liberal Arts Education in China
Since its founding in 1919, Yenching University, like other Christian universities in China at the time, was instrumental in introducing the American liberal arts education tradition, emphasizing the importance of general humanities courses alongside specialized subjects.
The short history of Yenching University revolves around the convergence of Wilsonian internationalism and the exportation of the American progressive intellectuals' education model amid China's rising nationalism and the critical challenges it confronted during the socially and politically tumultuous early twentieth century. The echoes of Yenching's legacy reverberate into the present decade, as a resurgence of general education emerges from the shadows of Maoist specialized instruction in China. .
About the Bellarmine Forum
The Bellarmine Forum is LMU's annual celebration of the life of the mind, offered by the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts. The 2023-24 Bellarmine Forum invites students, faculty, and the entire LMU community to think about how we understand “internationalization” and how to break it down into what that actually means to us.
Lei Qin, Lecturer of History, modern China and East Asia
Lei Qin received her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, with a primary focus on the cultural history of modern China with transnational perspectives. She currently teaches about modern China and modern East Asia at LMU and UCLA.