Bridging Confucian China and the Christian West Through Education: The “Anglo-Chinese” and “Sino-Western” Schools (英華書院/中西學堂) in the 19th Century
Principal Investigator
LEUNG Yuen Sang
Total Fund Awarded
HK$646,576
Funding Source
RGC General Research Fund
(2009/2010)
Abstract of Project
| 1. | This project will present five case studies based on the history of the Anglo-Chinese schools in Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong, Fuzhou, and Shanghai, with brief histories of the schools in Tianjin and Chengdu for comparative study. |
| 2. | This project will analyse the changing concepts of bilingualism, biculturality and Sino-western cross-cultural fertilization within two circles of educators: the missionaries and the Chinese reformers who advocated the collaborative approach. |
| 3. | This project will analyse the transformation of these schools from their missionary beginnings in the early nineteenth century to becoming elite schools in “Treaty-port China” at the turn of the century. |
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