THESIS
2017
viii, 34 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
University coeducation developed rapidly from the beginning of modern tertiary
education in China and spread nationwide in the decade of 1920s. Most scholars
attribute the early commitment to coeducation among Chinese universities to the May
Fourth advocacy of women’s emancipation. However, this study, focusing on one of
the earliest coed tertiary educational institutions in China, Utopia University (coed
since 1916), situates the origins of early university coeducation in China at the wider
confluence of three critical factors: the agency of university leadership, a
conceptualized conjunction between the private and the public spheres, and exposure
to new liberal Western and Japanese women’s education and/or ideologies. I conclude
by showing how the history of Utopia Universit...[
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University coeducation developed rapidly from the beginning of modern tertiary
education in China and spread nationwide in the decade of 1920s. Most scholars
attribute the early commitment to coeducation among Chinese universities to the May
Fourth advocacy of women’s emancipation. However, this study, focusing on one of
the earliest coed tertiary educational institutions in China, Utopia University (coed
since 1916), situates the origins of early university coeducation in China at the wider
confluence of three critical factors: the agency of university leadership, a
conceptualized conjunction between the private and the public spheres, and exposure
to new liberal Western and Japanese women’s education and/or ideologies. I conclude
by showing how the history of Utopia University allows us to understand better the
indigenous historical, social and cultural context of China that facilitated women’s entry
to the public sphere in modern China.
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