The Alienated Academy

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and pro...

The enormous changes in twentieth-century Chinese higher education up to the Sino-Japanese War are detailed in this pioneering work. Yeh examines the impact of instruction in English and of the introduction of science and engineering into the curriculum. Such innovations spurred the movement of higher education away from the gentry academies focused on classical studies and propelled it toward modern middle-class colleges with diverse programs. Yeh provides a typology of Chinese institutions of higher learning in the Republican period and detailed studies of representative universities. She also describes student life and prominent academic personalities in various seats of higher learning. Social changes and the political ferment outside the academy affected students and faculty alike, giving rise, as Yeh contends, to a sense of alienation on the eve of war.

叶文心，早年毕业于台湾大学历史系，后赴美深造，1984年获美国伯克利加州大学历史学博士学位。1994—2000年任美国伯克利加州大学中国研究中心主任，现任该校历史系讲座教授暨东亚研究所所长。主要从事中国近现代文化史、社会史、上海都市文化史等方面的研究。英文著作有：The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China，1919-1937 (1990), Provincial Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism (1996), Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments in the Making of Modern China (2007)等。