New Perspectives on Yenching University, 1916-1952, shows how China's preeminent Christian college's promotion of biculturalism, liberal education, and liberal Christianity was a precursor to contemporary modifications of Eurocentric models and refutes claims that a liberal cosmopolitan education is incompatible with nation-building and a modern Chinese identity.

Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum, Ph.D. (1971), Yale University, is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Claremont McKenna College. His publications include edited volumes and articles on modern China, including State and Society in China: the Consequences of Reform (1992).