Germany and Vocational Education in Republican China

Henrike Rudolph is a researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fast Forward to a Pedagogical Century.- Part I: Travelling Texts.- 3. Introducing the Sources.- 4. Coming to Terms with the Complexity of the German Education System (1903-1912).- 5. Vocational Education Between Paternalism, Militarism, and Pedagogical Reform Movement (1913-1922).- 6. Growing Disillusionment and Novel Approaches (1923-1939).- Part II: Touring Skills.- 7. Tongji University and Its Foreman School.- 8. At the Crossroads of Cost Cutting, Upskilling and Marketing.- Vocational Training as Part of Sino-German Contracts.- 10. The Feng-Chinese: A Sino-German Experiment of Professional Soldiers and Soldiers with a Profession.- 11. Tongji Graduates and Their Contribution to Modern Midwifery Training.- 12. Conclusion.