A Research On The Communication Of American Education Towards Modern China In The First Half Of The 20th Century

As an important reflection of one country's "soft power", the communication of foreign education is becoming increasingly valuable for the development of a country. The America' rise to a great power in more than 200 years has fully shown that in additional to "hard powers" such as economy, politics and military, the communication of education and culture is of great value to enhance the global influence of America. This paper intends to explain the valuable experience of how America enhanced its influence in modern Chinese education and enhanced its own strength under globalization in the first half of the 20th century.Based on the observation of the history, root and pattern of communication of America' foreign education from a macro view, and from the view of communication of American education towards modern China students by Teachers College of Columbia University, the whole paper describes the basic information of the communication of American education towards modern China and its enormous influence on modern China, and researches and analyzes the key reasons for the success of communication of education from the perspective of communication. The whole paper is divided into the following six parts:Introduction:The Introduction part introduces the background and significance of research on the topic, summarizes the relevant research on the topic, defines the concepts related to the topic and clarifies the content and methods of research. Chapter One:Chapter One traces historical and cultural roots for the overseas expansion and communication of America, summarizes the background of dissemination of America's foreign education in the first half of 20th century from a macro perspective, analyzes the basic pattern of the communication of America's foreign education, gives an overall description and analysis on the basic situation of religious dissemination, non-religious civil educational dissemination (mainly by foundations and institutions of higher education) from the aspects of environment, contents and effects of the communication.Chapter Two:As TC is the epitome and typical mode of American education towards modern China, the chapter, with emphasis on the analysis on TC and the International Institute, describes the status of the communication of foreign education by TC, highlights the direction of international education of TC, analyzes its relationship with Chinese students, and further analyzes the reasons for the establishment of the International Institute, discusses the meaning of the purpose and curricular of International Institute on the cultivation of Chinese students with awareness and thoughts of American educational ideology.Chapter Three:Chapter Three further analyzes the important envoys of American education towards modern China:professors and scholars of TC, such as John Dewey, Paul Monroe, explains how they, as individuals or groups, influence Chinese students through theories and practice, thereby affecting the development of modern Chinese education, and based on the foregoing, analyzes the particularity of TC's education towards modern China in terms of the content, channel, effect of the communication.Chapter Four:Chapter Four focuses on education theory, education system, educational experiment to describe the huge influence of America on modern Chinese education and gives an overall image of the communication and influence of American education towards China. On the foregoing basis, Chapter Four discusses the degree of acceptance and recognition by Chinese society of the American educational culture under the great influence of American education, and rethinks the obstacles faced in the process of integration of American education into China, considers the problems such as the relationship between overseas cultures with local culture during cross-cultural communication.Conclusion:The Conclusion part analyzes key factors for the success of the communication of American education and culture, tries to seek the internal reasons for America's huge influence in China from the perspective of culture communication, studies how China can learn from America to spread Chinese traditional culture, enhances soft power and leads the way to a powerful country under the context of globalization and in the process of upgrading China's soft power.