Managing God's Higher Learning

Dong Wang is distinguished professor of history and director of the Wellington Koo Institute at Shanghai University since 2016, a Chatham House member, and a research associate at the Fairbank Center of Harvard University since 2002. Her books include The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present and Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage.

• Chapter 1 The Setting: Honglok, Guangzhou, and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University)Chapter 2 Cultural Migration: Lingnan as a Foreign and Local InstitutionChapter 3 Financing God's Higher Education: Management and GovernanceChapter 4 The Advance to Higher Education: Women's Education, Power and ModernizationChapter 5 From Lingnan to Pomona: Charles K. Edmunds and His Chinese-American CareerChapter 6 Conclusion: Memories and Legacies of Lingnan

Professor Wang's rich study is not an institutional history of the old style but a theoretically informed reassessment. Canton Christian College, originally an example of that uniquely American institution, the liberal arts college, in a generation became Lingnan University, a multifaceted research institution embedded in the emerging Chinese nation. Wang concludes that this was not 'cultural imperialism' but a multi-cultural and Trans-Pacific enterprise which sets an example for NGOs in China today.