Transnational Education Between the League of Nations and China: The Interwar Period

ISBN-13: 9783030824440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Kaiyi Li

Opis

This volume examines transnational educational transfer between China and the League of Nations during the interwar period. By analysing the educational activities of the League of Nations with China, he book enriches the study of the history of the League of Nations by turning the focus to affairs that exceed the scope of traditional international relation and focusing on ways in which international organizations engaged in international educational endeavors. Adopting a transnational perspective, the book moves beyond conventional national-centered historiography, thus contributing to the understanding of how educational ideas, media, and policies circulate between different nations.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. League of Nations: Educational Enterprise and Networks 

Chapter 3. Seeking Modern Education: Educational Reform and Tendency in Republican China 

Chapter 4. The Disappointed League of Nations: Teaching the League of Nations in China 

Chapter 5. Educational Film: Internationalizing educational Methods and International Competition 

Chapter 6. Diagronising Chinese Education: The League of Nations’ Experts to China in 1932 

Chapter 7. Chinese Educational Mission to Europe in 1931 

Chapter 8. Conclusion 

O autorze

Kaiyi Li is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Georg Eckert Institut Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, Germany.

Blurb

This volume examines transnational educational transfer between China and the League of Nations during the interwar period. By analysing the educational activities of the League of Nations with China, he book enriches the study of the history of the League of Nations by turning the focus to affairs that exceed the scope of traditional international relation and focusing on ways in which international organizations engaged in international educational endeavors. Adopting a transnational perspective, the book moves beyond conventional national-centered historiography, thus contributing to the understanding of how educational ideas, media, and policies circulate between different nations.

Kaiyi Li is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Georg Eckert Institut Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, Germany.