Fusion of East and West: Children, Education, and a New China, 1902–1915.

Christian educators like Wang were slower than others to respond to the 1911 Revolution (182), and even after Wang revised his textbooks for the Republic of China, they did not reflect or depict socio-political changes in the Republic to the same degree as other textbooks (250). As her major focus, Bai contextualizes the opus of Wang Hengtong, a Christian convert and educator at the turn of the century. While Bai sees some revolutionary potential in the Christian message, she also suggests (in my reading of this book) that the Christian message limited Wang's creativity, in comparison to Du Yaquan's I Huitu wenxue chujie i . [Extracted from the article]