A History of Higher Education Exchange: China and America

by Teresa Bevis

Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China's imperial leaders made a historic decision--to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland's borders. In time, an acquisition of science and technology from the rapidly-industrializing West would enable China to modernize its still-feudal economy and outdated military, thus restoring stability and establishing protection from future...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415839300
• ISBN13: 9780415839303
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"