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When overseas education meets a changing local context: the role of Tokyo Higher Technical School in the industrial modernisation of China in the early twentieth century.
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History of Education . Sep2019, Vol. 48 Issue 5, p607-629. 23p. 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Illustration, 1 Chart, 5 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- It is a wise choice for a backward country to explore overseas education bases to find the training for urgently needed talents. In 1900, the Qing government began actively sending students to study advanced technology in Japan. From that time, Tokyo Higher Technical School (THTS) became an indispensable overseas base for Chinese students studying abroad. Although the educational resources of THTS were not superior to those of the imperial universities, returning THTS graduates played a greater role in the industrial modernisation of China than the graduates from imperial universities. This article shows that the role of importers of technology is not only determined by the technology they have acquired, but also highly influenced by a variety of factors, such as opportunity and social demand, presenting a complex and changeable pattern in different contexts. For developing countries, the 'appropriateness' plays a more important role than the 'progressiveness' of the imported technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *FOREIGN students
*CHINESE students in foreign countries
*TECHNICAL education
*INDUSTRIALIZATION
*MODERNIZATION (Social science)
*HIGHER education
*HISTORY
HISTORY of Tokyo, Japan
QING dynasty, China, 1644-1912
ECONOMIC conditions in China
MEIJI Period, Japan, 1868-1912
JAPANESE history -- 1868-
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0046760X
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- History of Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137641311
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2019.1585584