Confucianism, colonialism, and the Cold War : Chinese cultural education at Hong Kong's New Asia College, 1949-63 / by Grace Ai-Ling Chou.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introducing New Asia Chapter 1: Saving Chinese Identity in Exile: Constructing Cultural Education at New Asia Chapter 2: Containing Communism and Promoting Culture: The Investment of American Nongovernmental Organizations Chapter 3: Colonial Policy and Cultural Evaluation: Chinese Higher Education in Postwar Hong Kong Chapter 4: Negotiating a Chinese University: Symbols, Standards, and Content Epilogue: New Asia and The Chinese University The Meanings of New Asia.

The story of Hong Kong{u2019}s New Asia College, from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reveals the efforts of a group of self-exiled intellectuals in establishing a Confucian-oriented higher education on the Chinese periphery. Their program of cultural education encountered both support and opposition in the communist containment agenda of American non-governmental organizations and in the educational policies of the British colonial government. By examining the cooperation and struggle between these three parties, this study sheds light on postwar Hong Kong, a divided China, British imperial ambitions in Asia, and the intersecting global dynamics of modernization, cultural identity, and the Cold War.