Chinese, European, and American Universities - Kirby, William
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This essay discusses the recent and rapid growth in Chinese higher education, and seeks to view it in the light of earlier systems of learning in China and other international revolutions in higher education, particularly in Europe and North America. It argues that Chinese, European and American universities share many common objectives and common problems. It focuses on efforts to revitalize undergraduate education, and the often-contested role of the humanities as part of the "general education" of undergraduates at leading universities, seeking to educate individuals with the capacity for…mehr

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This essay discusses the recent and rapid growth in Chinese higher education, and seeks to view it in the light of earlier systems of learning in China and other international revolutions in higher education, particularly in Europe and North America. It argues that Chinese, European and American universities share many common objectives and common problems. It focuses on efforts to revitalize undergraduate education, and the often-contested role of the humanities as part of the "general education" of undergraduates at leading universities, seeking to educate individuals with the capacity for critical leadership, rather than students trained in skills that will become obsolete in their lifetimes.
Autorenporträt
William C. Kirby is the Geisinger Professor of History, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor, Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Professorin für Sinologie an der Universität Wien, Autorin zahlreicher Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichtsschreibung und zum historischen Denken in China seit dem Ende der Kaiserzeit.
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik is Professor of Sinology at the University of Vienna, author of numerous publications on the historiography and historical thought in China since the end of the Imperial era.

Franz Römer ist seit 1978 Professor für Klassische Philologie an der Universität Wien und seit 1996 Dekan der Geisteswissenschaftlichen bzw. der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät. Zu seinen Interessensgebieten zählen neben der Geschichtsschreibung und der nachaugusteische Literatur auch die Überlieferungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte sowie die neulateinische Literatur.