Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introducing New Asia -- Chapter One Chinese Identity in Exile: Constructing Cultural Education at New Asia -- Chapter Two Containing Communism and Promoting Culture: The Investment of American Nongovernmental Organizations -- Chapter Three Colonial Policy and Cultural Evaluation: Chinese Higher Education in Postwar Hong Kong -- Chapter Four Negotiating a Chinese University: Symbols, Standards, and Content -- Epilogue New Asia and the Chinese University -- The Meanings of New Asia -- Bibliography -- Index.

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The story of Hong Kong’s New Asia College, from its 1949 establishment through its 1963 incorporation into The Chinese University of Hong Kong, reveals the efforts of a group of self-exiled intellectuals in establishing a Confucian-oriented higher education on the Chinese periphery. Their program of cultural education encountered both support and opposition in the communist containment agenda of American non-governmental organizations and in the educational policies of the British colonial government. By examining the cooperation and struggle between these three parties, this study sheds light on postwar Hong Kong, a divided China, British imperial ambitions in Asia, and the intersecting global dynamics of modernization, cultural identity, and the Cold War.