The Dewey Experiment in China: Educational Reform and Political Power in the Early Republic Book

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE—YANKEE CONFUCIUS

I. John Dewey's Visit to China

Dewey's Initial Reception

"Returned Students" from the United States

The May Fourth Movement and Dewey's Reception

The Lecture Trail and the Dissemination of Dewey's Works

II. John Dewey's Lectures in China

The Experimental Method and Philosophy

Education

Political Thought

PART TWO—EDUCATIONAL REFORM

III. The New Education Reform Movement: Its Origins and Development to 1922

The New Education Reform Movement

Reform Ideas in the New Education Movement

John Dewey and the Establishment of Democratic Educational Aims

The Decision for Cultural Reform

Educational Reform in Practice

IV. T'ao Hsing-Chih and Educational Reform, 1922-1929

T'ao Hsing-chih's Leadership

T'ao's Educational Ideas, 1922-1924

Educational Reform, 1924-1929

The Educated Class and the People

V. The Denouement: Educational Reform at the End of the 1920s

Kuo Ping-wen and National Southeastern University

Three Careers at a Standstill

PART THREE—PRAGMATIC POLITICS AND REFORM IDEOLOGY

VI. Experimental Politics

World War I and Internationalism in China

Testing Experimentalism as a Reform Tool

America's Best

Appendixes
A. A Table of the Published Chinese Sources of John Dewey's Lectures Delivered in China, 1919-1921

B. John Dewey's Major Lecture Series, Published Articles, and Professional Activities During His Visit to China

C. Translations of John Dewey's Works into Chinese

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Index