Missionary Universities And The Modern Social Transformation Of Southern Yangtze River Area In The Late Qing Dynasty And The Early Republic Of China

In 19th-century's the Southern Yangtze River area , the economic structure, social customs, values, education system, and etc. are all undergoing significant change. Chinese interest in Western education, especially for advanced Western scientific knowledge, ideas , teaching methods, and management models . Their learning enthusiasm gives missionary schools more development stage.The emerging missionary universities cultivated a large number of Chinese students through their new management, unique teaching methods and fresh campus life. Then they affected culture, society, polity of the southern Yangtze river area in silence. Making the missionary universities as a communicator of the value system in China has their own foundation. The far-reaching implications not only for the spread of Christianity, but also by the spread of Western technological culture, in a greater extent, affected the modern social transformation of the southern Yangtze river area.