Page 131 - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Proceedings 2017-18

School of Humanities and Social Science
Division of Social Science

Supervisor: LEE James / SOSC Co-Supervisor: CAMPBELL Cameron / SOSC
REN Yunzhu / SOSC
Student: LI Haoyuan / QSA Course: UROP1100, Summer

Higher education had been developed within revolution in Republican China, which accounts for the fundamental
difference of education system between ancient China and contemporary China. It could be better understood by study
the information in its educated elites. This report is based on Republican China University Faculty Dataset in 1941 and
1944. By analyzing the origin, occupation and educational background of the faculties, it can primarily be concluded that
the regional origin of this group tends to centralize in the area where historically resourceful in education. The
occupation distribution responses to the location and different investment in higher education in Republican China. The
information of university faculties can also partially reflect the general situation of Republican China.

Supervisor: LEE James / SOSC Co-Supervisor: CAMPBELL Cameron / SOSC
REN Yunzhu / SOSC
Student: YEUNG Tsz Wang / GCS Course: UROP1100, Summer

This report describes and examines data on four characteristics of Chinese overseas doctoral students in Europe, 1907-
1962: the European university which awarded them their PhD, their research subject, the dates of their post-tertiary
European education, and their age. My data source comes two books by Yuan Tongli, A Guide to Doctoral Dissertations
by Chinese Students in Continental Europe, 1907-1962 (1964 ) and Doctoral Dissertations by Chinese Students in Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, 1916-1961 (1963) . A pioneer in the development of modern libraries in China, Yuan Tongli
was the chairman of the Tsinghua University Library from 1916-1920, the Librarian of Peking University from 1925-1926,
the Librarian of Peking Metropolitan Library from 1926-1929, and the Librarian and Associate Director of the National
Library of Peiping from 1929-1942. The purpose of this report is to use quantitative methods to analyse the major
patterns of behaviour of the student in Europe. This report consists of four parts which include an introduction, method
and materials, results, and conclusion.

Supervisor: LEE James / SOSC Co-Supervisor: CAMPBELL Cameron / SOSC
REN Yunzhu / SOSC
Student: ZHANG Zixin / GCS Course: UROP1100, Fall
UROP2100, Spring
UROP3100, Summer

This report discusses Chinese overseas postgraduate doctoral students in the United States from 1905 to 1960. These
students account for half or more of all Chinese PhD students during this long half-century. Moreover, because of the
generous support of the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship, 1907-1929, they include many of China’s ‘best and
brightest.’ By comparing a list of all successful Chinese doctoral students who graduated from the United States
between 1905 to 1960 and by supplementing these data with information from the Chinese University Student
Dataset – Republic of China, CUSD-ROC, and the Chinese University Employee Dataset – Republic of China, CUED-ROC, I
discover that while most of this influential and important group of future scholars later became senior faculty in
hundreds of US universities as well 50 Chinese universities ca 1941 and 100+ Chinese universities ca 1947/1953, they
typically graduated from no more than 10 tertiary institutions in China and post-tertiary institutions in the United States.
This pattern of highly localized tertiary and post tertiary education but national and even international employment
differs considerably from current education and employment patterns in both China and the United States.

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