Private Canton University During Minkuo Period

In the research of China Minkuo Higher Education, university histories have been paid attention by the scholars in the circle of education and history. But most of them are limited to national universities and missionary universities. And the achievement on private university that Chinese set up is few. These private universities have done their own contribution for the society development, remedied national university's defects to some extent, played an active role in the advance of Minkuo Higher Education by fostering plenty of talents and exploring some education fields beneficially. Canton University was a representative that had a brilliant history and distinct style. Because of its big effect on the progress of the cause of higher education, Canton University had won the popularity. Even now, there are many alumna associates of Canton University all round the world. But it is a pity that few people know about the history of Canton University. As a representative of private university, Canton University's development, existence status, features and influence are worthy of being researched, because they can not only help us comprehend growth background, and analyze the education policies during Minkuo(especially referred to Nanjing National Government), but also be used for reference to higher education in today's China. So far the systematic study on the Private Canton University has not been conducted yet. From the aim of filling the gap and learning about existence status of individual private university under the Nanjing National Government's education policies and providing reference to today's private education of China, it is very important to study and analyze Canton University's developing process.The historical literature analysis is employed to sort out and study the Private Canton University's historical facts, showing its establishment and development, education features and school spirit and society roles. And based on it, a coarse comparison is conduced between Private Canton University and National Sun yet sen University——national university representative, and Lingnan University——missionary university representative, in a bid to accurately picture its overall status and further analysis.It has been found that Canton University played an active role and advanced the development of higher education. It took on a flourishing look under the positive education policies and founders'active function. On the other hand, it staged weakly because of the...