Book description
Professor Gu's paper makes an important contribution to studies
on China by examining the role that mission schools played in their teaching
of English. He looks at many aspects of the subject, including Protestant
missionaries and English-teaching mission schools, the characteristics
and motives and long term cultural impact of English teaching in the
mission schools. Also included is a short article entitled "Christians
and Taiping rebels: The London Missionary Society and its Chinese collection
at the National Library of Australia" by Andrew Gosling. Occasional
papers on East Asia ; no. 3.
About the author
Dr. Gu Weixing was born in Danyang, Jiangsu Province in December
1963. He is an Associate Professor of English and currently teaches at
the College of Foreign Languages, Soochow University, Jiangsu Province,
China. He majored in English education for his BA from Soochow University
and for his MA at the Southeast University in Nanjiong he majored in
Philosophy. In 2001, he completed a doctorate in History at Soochow University.
His field of teaching and research is the teaching of the English language
in China. In 2002, Professor Gu was made an Honorary Research Fellow
of the Faculty of Art and Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
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