The Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Contexts

Part I. Hong Kong

1. The Idea of a University: Some Polemical Reflections
Leo Ou-fan Lee

2. Meritocracy and Individualism: Negotiating Cross-Cultural Humanities Values in a Politicised Hong Kong Context
Michael O’Sullivan

3. The Value of English Literary Studies in Hong Kong: Insights from Interviews with MA Students
Evelyn T. Y. Chan

Part II. Taiwan

4. Cultivating a Humanistic Mind: A View from Taiwan
Chin-jung Chiu

5. The Humanities in Higher Education and Research in Taiwan: Current State and Challenges
Kirill O. Thompson

Part III. China

6. Problems with the Humanities in Mainland China: A Translational Perspective
Yangsheng Guo, Limin Su

7. Humanities and Liberal Arts in the Chinese Universities: A New Connection and Dialogue
You Guo Jiang

8. Reflection on Teaching the Humanities in China
Donald Stone

9. International Glow: The Contemporary Reinvention of a Chinese Humanitas

Stuart Christie

Keywords: Linguistics, Chinese, Regional and Cultural Studies