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A journey to Mars: John Dewey's lectures and inquiry in China
Ist Teil von
Journal of modern Chinese history, 2018-01, Vol.12 (1), p.63-81
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Quelle
Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Instead of the framework of influence-acceptance commonly used in previous studies, the author uses new sources to reexamine John Dewey's visit to China from the perspective of interactive experience. This study presents Dewey's lectures in China as the result of interrelationships among a variety of elements - Columbia University, different hosts and audiences, the media, all levels of the Chinese government, the domestic situation in the United States, the international situation, and Dewey's expectations and work - against the general background of China's New Culture Movement and new educational reforms. Dewey's speeches on democracy, science, and new education were remarkably successful in the first year of his visit to China, but began to meet with resistance from some students beginning in June 1920. Because of the Red Scare in the United States, Dewey had to stay in China. In the second year of his visit, he gave warmly welcomed lectures on the same topics in Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong Provinces. With a deeper understanding of China, Dewey not only identified himself with reform plans but also began to pay more attention to China's economic problems. His inquiry into the problems confronting China is a good example of what he advocated in his lectures: seeing democracy, science, and new education as a way of thinking and carrying out actions and making intellectual choices while moving forward.