This book brings together English translations of thirteen research papers published in recent years by Chinese historians, sociologists, and educators. These papers investigate various dimensions of the legacy of China's historic The Christian Universities which continues to inspire higher education reform in China even in the twenty-first century. This book focuses on Christian Universities, which fostered a particularly notable Liberal Arts Education in the Chinese context. Besides embracing some ideals in common with Liberal Arts Education developed in the West, their Liberal Arts Education curriculum had an emphasis on readings in the classics, history, philosophy, religion, ethics, and literature which conveyed traditional Chinese values. The Christian Universities also shared a strong commitment to moral formation, community service, and global citizenship education. This book emphasizes Liberal Arts Education that focused on the whole person, whereacademic knowledge, skills, and character were equally valued. The book presents distinctive characteristics of the study of Christian higher education in China and the interplay between globalization and localization.

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Professor Peter Tze Ming Ng has been doing research on the history of China's Christian universities in the past three decades, working closely with many Western and Chinese scholars in the field including Jessie Lutz, Daniel Bays, Jean Paul Wiest, Gary Tiedeman, Zhang Kaiyuan, Ma Min, Edward Xu, Cha Shijie, Wang Chenmain, Leung Yuensang, Lee Kamkeung, and others. He has published more than one hundred articles in academic journals, plus being the author or the editor of the following books: Christianity and University Education in China (Chinese) (Beijing: CASS, 2003/2006), Changing Paradigms of Christian Higher Education in China (Edwin Mellen, 2002), Christian Higher Education in China - as seen from the Perspective of Glocalization (Chinese) (Taiwan, 2006), Christian Responses to Asian Challenges: A Glocalization View on Christian Higher Education in East Asia (CUHK, 2007), Chinese Christianity : An Interplay between Global and Local Perspectives (Brill, 2012) Reflections on the Study of the History of Christian Higher Education in China, 1986-2015 (Chinese) (CUHK, 2017), and Sinification of Christianity: The Case of Christian Higher Education in China (Chinese & English) (IIHSDP, 2021). Leping Mou is a Ph.D. candidate at OISE, University of Toronto. His doctoral research examines liberal arts education for whole person cultivation in Chinese contexts. He has published journal articles and book chapters on global liberal arts education and liberal arts education models in the Greater China area. Ruth Hayhoe is a professor at the University of Toronto. Her Asian engagements have included the first secretary for Education, Science and Culture in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing (1989-1991), the visiting professor at Nagoya University (1996), and the director of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, now the Education University of Hong Kong (1997-2002), where she holds the title of President Emerita. She was honoredto be the first author in the World Library of Educationalists to publish a book relating to education in China. Entitled China Through the Lens of Comparative Education, it was published in 2015. Other recent books include Canadian Universities in China's Transformation: An Untold Story (2016) and Religion and Education: Comparative and International Perspectives (2018). She received the Silver Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong SAR Government and the title of Commandeur dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques from the Government of France in 2002. She also holds honorary doctorates from the Hong Kong Institute of Education (2002), the Open University of Hong Kong (2015), and Victoria University in Toronto (2019).