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Transmitting The Ideal Of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since The Late Nineteenth Century (Book Review), Thomas D. Curran

History Faculty Publications

Book review by Thomas D. Curran.

Mak, Ricarado K. S., ed. Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment: Chinese Universities Since the Late Nineteenth Century. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2009.

ISBN 9780761847267

Literacy And Cultural Assimilation In Rural China: A Report From The Interior, Amanda C.R. Clark

Library Faculty Scholarship

The American Library Association has long been concerned with the promotion of literacy, particularly as it pertains to the equity and global universality of access to information. When libraries focus on the accessibility of information, literacy is understandably an initial step in the process. This essay focuses on challenges to literacy in rural China, and how technology may be improving access to information for many of the inland population.

Ua3/9/2 Chuangxin Cuiba, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Chinese newspaper regarding Gary Ransdell's visit to China.

The Impact Of Interactive Multimedia Kits And Websites On Self-Directed Learning In Chinese Pronunciation And Tones, Hui-Kuei Hsieh

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined whether interactive multimedia (IM) and interactive websites (IW) have an impact on Millennials' self-directed learning in Chinese pronunciation and tones. A set of multimedia kits and several interactive websites were adopted for the study. Twenty-six volunteer German high school girls were involved in this study and were divided into two groups for two treatment conditions. Condition 1 was that the first group of learners used IM and IW to self-study Chinese pronunciation and tones for 4 weeks. Condition 2 was that the second group of learners used not only IM and IW for self-directed learning but also …

The Building Of The Shenyang Jianzhu University 1998-2007: A Case Study Of The Role Of Professor Fuchang Zhang And His Communist Party Network, William D. Blizzard, Jr.

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

The purpose of this study was to determine how the building of Shenyang Jianzhu University’s new campus was accomplished under the leadership of Professor Fuchang Zhang, Secretary General of the Chinese Communist Party for the university, using his Communist Party network. This study was conducted in the city of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Peoples Republic of China, using interviews with Professor Zhang, his peers, government officials, and other university presidents. Archival data is also included. There were limitations in the study that included personal and professional friendships, student recruiting issues, as well as methodological limitations because all interviews had to be …

Bahan Pengajaran Bahasa Cina Di Sekolah Menengah Persendirian Cina Di Malaysia : Satu Kajian Kes, Wai Bing Hong

Student Works (2000-2009)

The history of Chinese education in Malaysia encompasses 98 years since the first Chinese school was built in 1904. Although faced with a host of challenges from the aspect of changing government education policies due to different styles of administration under the British government, the Japanese occupation, the Federation of Malaya and subsequently independent Malaysia, the Chinese community has succeeded in maintaining 60 private Chinese secondary schools to this day. In Malaysia, textbooks play a very important role in the teaching of the Chinese language in schools. Textbooks are the standard teaching resources for Chinese language and an important tool …

Pendidikan Cina Di Malaysia : Satu Kajian Peranan Gabungan Persatuan Guru-Guru Sekolah Cina Malaysia, 1951-1996, Bon Hoi Lew

Student Works (2000-2009)

A research was carried out to study the activities of Jiao Zong in the field of education, politics and cultural over a span of 45 years ( 1951-1996) in Malaysia. The research studied on the role played by Jiao Zong in each respective fields and also on the influence and contributions towards the Chinese community and nation. Chapter one gave a brief introduction on the history of Chinese education in Malaysia, the estabilshment of the association and of Jiao Zong's activities. This chapter concluded with a review on the motives, scopes, problems and its solutions. Chapter two discussed on how …

Multimedia Package Of Chinese Mid Autumn Festival, Judy Yeap

Student Works (2000-2009)

The Chinese mid autumn festival also called the moon festival, is not known very much outside the community. Thus,the objective of Multimedia Package Of Chinese Mid Autumn Festival is to introduce the festival more widely through a multimedia package. This package will contain the poems, songs, the food and other information of the festival. To improve the user's understanding of the after using the package, there is a quiz section to test the user. The multimedia feature combining text, graphics, video and audio together were included to increase the user's interest. A review of few existing web sites on Internet …

Flarr Pages #6: The Word In Chinese, Jenny Lin

FLARR Pages

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Potential Technology Application In English Instruction In The People's Republic Of China, Ping Gao

Graduate Research Papers

The primary purpose of this paper is to present a vision of potential technology application as an effective teaching aid for English instruction in the People's Republic of China (hereafter referred to as China). In order to provide a clear picture of why technology should be applied in English teaching situations in China, major factors influencing the current English teaching methodologies – grammar translation and audiolingual method – have been analyzed. A theoretical analysis of modern Western teaching pedagogy, the communicative approach, has been explored to offer an in-depth understanding of foreign language learning and teaching processes. The close relationship …

The Foundation For Revolution: Educational Reforms In Late Ch'ing China, Andrea Asbell

Dissertations and Theses

Historical consensus has labeled the educational reform efforts of China's scholar-officials in the second half of the nineteenth century as merely reactions to external circumstances and therefore has concluded that these reforms were "failures". The youthful revolt against Chinese cultural traditions, which culminated in the May Fourth Movement of 1919, has frequently been cited as a clear demonstration that previous educational reforms had failed. However, when viewed as the intellectual phase of the revolutionary process, reform activities among members of China's bureaucratic and scholarly elite in the four and one half decades from the 1860s to the early 1900s can …

The Academic Achievement Of Chinese-American Fluent English Proficient And Non-Minority Background Intermediate Grade Students (Bilingual, Asian-American), Edmund W. Lee

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

More than a decade has passed since the United States Supreme Court made its historic decision in Lau v. Nichols on January 21, 1974. Ruling in favor of the non-English-speaking Chinese plaintiffs, the Court upheld earlier guidelines established by the office for Civil Rights for school districts with more than five percent national origin-minority group children. In delivering the Court's opinion, Justice Douglas reiterated these words of J. Stanley Pottinger, former director of OCR:

A History Of Seventh-Day Adventist Higher Education In The China Mission, 1888-1980, Handel Luke

Dissertations

After the Opium War, ending in 1842, western trade, religion, and education began entering China. Seventh-day Adventists entered China in 1888 but made few converts until they established schools.

China Training Institute was founded in 1910 by Dr. Harry W. Miller, who introduced a work-study program according to the Adventist philosophy of education advocated by Ellen White, a founder of the Church. When D. E. Rebok became president of the school in 1922, he further promoted this work-study program, moving the institution to a rural area at Chiao Tou Tseng in 1925. The Sino-Japanese Conflict in 1937-45 and the Civil …