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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: "Cultural engineering": The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Chinese humanities, 1924--1951 Abstract: This dissertation uses Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI), a private educational foundation, as a case study to explore American export of modern humanities into China following World War I and ending with the Korean War, the cooperation and tensions between American educators and China intellectuals, and the end of American efforts in China. In the Wilsonian moment after World War I, HYI was created to promote China knowledge in the United States and to develop modern humanities in China. HYI attempted to integrate the past and present experiences of both the West and the East, and work out solutions for the problems that societies in transition like China and other Asian countries were facing. After an initial period of notable success in its academic programs, HYI encountered a series of serious challenges, especially from the Anti-Japanese War and a civil war. The Communist military victory finally brought back stability, but it doomed HYI. And the outbreak of the Korean War and the war-related tensions led to the end of HYI and other American cultural and educational enterprises in China. |
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