Changes Of Chinese Christian Higher Education Before And After "Registration"

Christian higher education, which played an important role in the modernization of Chinese education, showed us the earliest system of modern higher education. It was a good example for Chinese modern education in the college organization, curriculum setting, management pattern, and academic degree system and campus culture construction.From the end of the 19th century until 1930s, China society experienced its turbulence: in politics, the Qing Dynasty ended, the Republic of China founded and the country was torn by warlordism; in economy, modern industry and business co-existed with the traditional small-scale peasant economy; in culture and education, Chinese traditional education, western science education and missionary's religion education interlaced each other. Chinese Christian education which arose by western missiles and worships had expanded their scale to Christian higher education, which deeply affected in Chinese modern higher education. In this period, Chinese Christian higher education experienced its prosperity, short depression, all-round adjustment and further development. Among these changes,"Registration"is a symbolic turning point with deep meanings.Christian higher education, which rooted in a heterogeneous culture, achieved its prosperity in China on certain degree, but then faced a sharp conflict with Chinese social realities. Such a conflict mainly occurred in the mid of 1920s. In front of the pressure, Christian educators obliged to reflect deeply the shortcomings of Christian education itself and its relationship with Chinese society, and made an all-round adjustment positively at the end of 1920s. After"government registration", most Christian higher schools obtained further development and fruitful achievements. Undoubtedly, making a careful study of this historical process is of much value to understand correctly the history of the development of Christian higher education in China.In this article, the author tried to analyze the changes of Chinese Christian higher education (from the end of 19th century until the mid of 1930s) and find out the factors that caused phenomenon.This article contains five parts:Part One: Introduce the origin of Chinese Christian higher education and the causes and performances of its prosperity during 1900-1923, and then analyze the confidence of missionaries in changing China into a Christian country. Part Two: Mainly analyze that in the mid of 1920s, Chinese Christian higher education was dropped into depression. Three main questions are concerned: emergence situation made the Christian educators frustrated; the depression of Christian higher education; Christian educators'deep reflection.Part Three: Christian education was re-orientated to serve China and was made an all-round adjustment, which were focused on two points: Government Registration and Correlated Program.Part Four: Christian higher education and Chinese education were interjected, two segments were contained: Educational rights were given back to China; Christian higher education earned further development after"Registration".The last part is concluding remark: The author deems that under certain conditions and scales, heterogeneous kinds of education can interject together and learn from each other.