| The establishment of Private Xiamen University in 1921, stopped the history that the Southern Fujian had no higher education, started a new situation of this region's culture development. From its founding to becoming a national university in 1937, after more than 16 years' development, the Private Xiamen University gradually became a comprehensive university which enjoyed great prestige both at home and abroad with TAN KAN KEE's support, all teachers and students' efforts and the local people's help. Meanwhile, the Private Xiamen University had imposed a deeply and extensively influence on the Southern Fujian region's culture. It gradually became the cultural center of the Southern Fujian region and impacted on the transformation of regional society.This thesis analyzes the development of Private Xiamen University under the Southern Fujian regional background. It studies how the Private Xiamen University influenced the Southern Fujian regional culture and the latter's reaction. About the collection and use of materials, the author not only collected and used the Private Xiamen University own materials, but also used the related newspapers, magazines, books, historic files, local chronicles, social investigation and some interview materials.The first chapter summarized the era background of the University's establishment and the basic complexion of South Fujian regional culture. The second chapter mainly studies the basic facts about the Private Xiamen University in running schools and analyzes the main factors which influence the development of the school. Focusing on the contents of courses, it also discusses the characteristic of the Private Xiamen University. Moreover, this chapter also discusses the interaction between "the little society" of the University and "the bigger environment" of the region from several angles such as the overseas Chinese, government and regional society.The last three chapters separately explore the Private Xiamen University's influence on the Southern Fujian regional education, culture and the transformation of social customs. In terms of regional education, this paper mainly discusses the university's contributions from Private Xiamen University and the regional educational administrative, secondary education, primary education and social education. As for the influence on the transformation of regional culture, this paper focuses on studying how the teachers and students of this university to inherit and pass on the traditional Chinese culture, their contributions to the development of the regional new literary and their drive to the Southern Fujian regional culture. As to the social customs, the Private Xiamen University has made some contributions in follow aspects: changing local people's daily habits, promoting the emancipation of women, advocating science and combating with autarchy.The main purpose of this thesis is through Private Xiamen University this case to illustrate how one university through its "cultural power" affects the regional society which it located and the relation between the university and the regional society. As the first private comprehensive university constructed by overseas Chinese, thePrivate Xiamen University has positively confluenced on the regional economy, politics and culture, and had remarkable characteristics in running school. Besides this, it located in South Fujian region which was neither the political nor the cultural center. So the Private Xiamen University holed an important position in the history of modern Chinese education. To be in agreement with all levels of government, the local society and overseas Chinese, the Private Xiamen University took an active part in modern china's education and others relative things, cultivated lots of talent people for country, especially made great contribution to the South Fujian regional education and culture. In this process the Private Xiamen University gradually became the culture center of the South Fujian and was honored with "The Strength of the South".
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