Ruth Hayhoe is assistant professor in the Higher Education Group, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She teaches courses in Comparative Higher Education and does research on aspects of Chinese higher education and its international relations. She is editor of Contemporary Chinese Education (Croom Helm and M. E. Sharpe, 1984) and author of numerous articles on Chinese universities. For thirteen years, she was privileged to teach Chinese students in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Marianne Bastid is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. She is the author of Aspects de la réforme de renseignement en Chine au début du XXe siècle, L Evolution de la société chinoise à la fin de la dynastie des Qing, and other publications on the political, social and cultural history of the late Qing period and the People’s Republic of China.

• Preface 1. Servitude or Liberation? The Introduction of Foreign Educational Practices and Systems to China from 1840 to the Present 2. Confucian Education Through European Eyes 3. Imperialism and the Diffusion of Liberal Thought: British Influences on Chinese Education 4. Borrowing from Japan: China’s First Modern Educational System 5. Technical Education as a Key to Cultural Cooperation: The Sino-German Experience 6. Catholics and Socialists: The Paradox of French Educational Interaction with China 7. American Progressivism in Chinese Education: The Case of Tao Xingzhi 8. The Multiplication of Ourselves: Canadian Medical Missionaries in West China 9. Convergence or Copying: China and the Soviet Union 10. Soviet Influence on China’s Higher Education 11. Maoism in Recent French Educational Thought and Practice 12. Contemporary Educational Relations with the Industrialized World: A Contemporary View 13. Educational Modernization as a Search for Higher Efficiency 14. Past and Present in China’s Educational Relations with the Industrialized World. Notes, Glossary of Chinese Terms, A Select Bibliography of Chinese Education and Its International Relations, Index.