When Confucius "encounters" John Dewey : a cross-cultural inquiry into Dewey's visit to China

"John Dewey's sojourn to China created a historical moment between the United States and China. Therefore, some of the recent scholarship on the topic aims to uncover the social and historical implications behind Dewey's Chinese trip, centering on how intercultural conversations occur...

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Main Author Yang, James Zhixiang (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024.
SeriesCurrent perspectives on Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and education.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601134
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-437-3
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 145 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • From Neo-Confucianism to John Dewey's pragmatism: Hu Shih's synthesis of Confucian learning and Dewey's thought in the Chinese literary revolution
  • A dialogue between "Last Confucian" and "American Confucian": New Confucian Liang Shuming's interpretation of Dewey's educational idea
  • Life is education and unity of knowledge and action: Tao Xingzhi's transformation of educational philosophies of John Dewey and Wang Yangming
  • Balancing Chinese education with Western education: Jiang Menglin's fusion of Confucian learning and John Dewey's pragmatism
  • How China contributed to Dewey's ideas.