The Study On The Localization Of Mission University

In the history of Chinese higher education,the mission university is very special.As a cross-cultural product,a lot of missionary universities have adopted localization measures to adapt to Chinese society for better survival and development.This paper selects Yenching university,which has the most successful localization development as a case,to find out its effective measures in the process of localization development,and provide reference suggestions for the localization development of Confucius institutes as the carrier of cross-cultural education with the author’s own thinking.Yenching university campus is full of oriental flavor,and it embodies its goal and thought of localization.On the financial side,Yenching university is constantly trying to be independent of the western club.The headmaster John Leighton Stuart makes friends with the famous Chinese people and raises money from the Chinese society,even launch a million dollar campaign to achieve sustainable development.Although the campaign doesn’t succeed,we can’t deny Yenching’s efforts to localize.Otherwise,the proportion of foreign teachers in Yenching university has been declining,at the same time,Chinese teachers get more and more,finally they have become the main force in the campus of Yenching,the quality of Yeching’s teachers also gets better and better,more and more famous scholars take part into this team,such as Liu Tingfang,Zhou Zuoren,Wu Wenzao and so on.About students’ daily life,they have experienced difference from typical religious life which is full of religious ceremonies to colorful campus life.At the request of the government that time,Yenching university have cancelled all the religious ceremonies among the students,as a result,it weakens the religious character of Yenching university.On the other hand,the goal of Yenching university has become from serving religion only to Religious,Academic,Chinese,this change has gone to the heart of Yenching university,and because of the new goal,Yenching puts more emphasis on academic development,and become one of the academic stars.Graudates’ job meaning their value choices can reflect the implementation of the localization of Yeching university,a lot of students choose to devote themselves to social construction after graduation,using knowledge got from Yenching as a weapon,work for national independence and strength,such as Bing Xin and Yang Gang.The obvious thing is that the graduates’ value choices are connected to the courses they take in school.With the deepening of localization,Yenching university offers more and more specialties and courses,it even set up leather manufacturing and homemaking courses to meet social needs.Generally speaking,the localization of Yenching university is quite successful.To show more specifically,I choose three typical results which are Havard-Yenching institute,publications sponsored by Yenching and the best journalism department in Asia belonging to Yenching to make readers realize Yenching’s success on the way to localize.However,there are many shortcomings and limitations,for example,the localization measures have not been fully implemented,funding sources are not fully independent,religion is not properly settled and so on.Finally,because of the similar troubles between mission university and Confucius Institute,author try to make some suggestions inspired by Yenching university,train local teachers,guide and help graduates work as a Chinese teacher,offer special practical courses to satisfy local needs,pursue the goal of building a community of shared future for mankind,take the civilian route and so on.