China and the West

John Dewey : Stay and lecture in Qingjiang.

John Dewey : Lecture 'The relationship between education and social progress' in Yongchau / Yongchow [Yangzhou]. = Jiao yu yu she hui. Liu Boming interpreter ; Chen Changgeng, Xu Changnian recorder. In : Jue wu ; May 23 (1920).

John Dewey returned to Yangzhou. He went to Zhenjiang in the evening.

John Dewey arrived in Zhenjiang and went to Changzhou.

John Dewey : Lecture 'The real meaning of freedon' in Yangzhou. = Zi you di zhen yi. In : Jue wu ; May 25 (1920).

John Dewey arrived on the morning at Changzhou. He visited the Youth Society, watched a shadow-puppet drama, and had a Chinese meal. He went sightseeing on the east outskirts of the city and observed the Yuanjie ceremony at Tianning Buddhist Temple. He bought a Chinese landscape painting which was said to have been created in the Ming dynasty.
In the afternoon he gave a lecture 'The school and its environment'. Liu Boming interpreter.
Shen Yihong : “The lecture attracted an audience larger than that of any other. Present at the lecture were County Magistrate Yao of Wujin, missionary John Hawk, priest Hu Jianong, local education administrative staff, headmasters and teachers of local schools, students from Middle Schools, Normal School and Girls' Normal School.”

John Dewey : Lectures 'The essence of students' self-motivation', 'The new outlook on life' in Changzhou. There were over 3000 listeners.

John Dewey : Lecture 'Methods for measuring intelligence'. = Zhi hui du liang fa di da gang. San Lang recorder. In : Xue deng ; May 26 (1920).

John Dewey : Speech 'Moral cultivation for the youth' at the Youth Society in Changzhou. $at noon Dewey returned to Shanghai with his wife, their daughter and Liu Boming.

Banquet for John Dewey by the Jiangsu Association of Education, the New Education Co-Progress Association and the Association ov Vocational Education at the Yipingxiang Restaurant in Shanghai.
Guo Bingwen gave a high praise for Dewey's positive and huge influence on Sino-U.S. diplomatic relations and China's education : Banquet for John Dewey by the Jiangsu Association of Education, the New Education Co-Progress Association and the Association ov Vocational Education at the Yipingxiang Restaurant in Shanghai.
Guo Bingwen gave a high praise for Dewey's positive and huge influence on Sino-U.S. diplomatic relations and China's education : "In terms of Sino-U.S. relations, Dewey has been playing an important role in informing the American people of a real China, which would help strengthen Sino-U.S. ties. As for education in China, ever since Dewey's arrival, it has been enjoying great progress."

John Dewey : Lectures 'The vocation of educators', 'The essence of vocational education' for the third annual meeting of the Zhonghua Vocational School at the invitation of the National Association of Vocational Education (Zhong hua zhi ye jiao yu she). Liu Boming interpreter.

John Dewey : Lecture 'The real meaning of independent action'. = Zi dong zhi zhen yi. Liu Boming interpreter ; Chen Changgeng recorder. In : Xue deng ; May 29 (1920).

Letter from John Dewey to Albert C. Barnes
Shanghai May 30th [1920]
Dear Barnes, …
I left Peking early in April. For six weeks I was at Nanking, teaching, or rather lecturing, wuite different, in the Govt Teachers College ther[e]. For the last week two weeks Ive been on tour, three interior places and then a week here, and then four or five other places before the first of July. All in this province and in the neighboring one. These are about the most prosperous and progressive provinces in China, but China, barring Shanghai, is still most decidedly China. It is interesting to get these glimpses of interior towns; two places were not treaty towns, and hence had no foreigners in them except doctors and missionaries and mission teachers. Everything in China is a contradiction. China needs foreign influence badly, foreign industrial methods etc, and yet the individual Chinese seem batter off, honester and more selfrespecting where foreigners dont go in large nos. In some ways one gets a better impression of missionary work in the smaller towns than in the big centres. The hospital and medical work awkanes [awakens] enthusiasm, and they take with them, the missionaries and teachers, a certain social spirit and public interest which is much needed. I stayed at a Chinese Youngs Mens Club at one of these places a useful institution, but it is safe to say that it wouldnt have been started without the example of the Y M C As. Many Chinese say that China is now going thru a period of rather indiscriminate admiration of all things foreign after having had so long a contempt for everything foreign, and is in danger of losing its own best things. I dont know of course. The Chinese seem to be very Chinese, and likely to stay so, tho in my judgment they really assimilate foreign ideas more internally than the Japanese. I have a theory that the situation in China now is much like that in Japan fifty years ago, and that there was a time when Japan might have turned in either direction. The Japanese continue to invade Siberia—and to promise complete withdrawal of all troops "when". They doubtless will when they get all the economic concessions they want—otherwise when the Russians get strong enough to put them out. Mr [Frank A.] Vanderlips party has been drowned in Japanese courtesy and palaver. Only one had strength enough to get up to the surface again and come over to China to see for himself. Mr Lamont at least has force, and isnt decieved. Dont think the consortium is all bad or exploitation. It might even be the salvation of China politically speaking, not only as the means of protecting China from further competitive exploitation which means partition ofr complete Japanese domination. Without foreign supervision of her finances China will surely go bankrupt and an international supervision is better than a compettive scramble—which is the reason Japan, or one reason, why Japan so opposed the consortium.
I shall get back to Peking early in July I suppose. Mrs. Dewey and the two girls stayed in Peking a month or so after I did but we are now going about together.
Sincerely yours, John Dewey—

John Dewey : Lecture 'Vocational education and labor issues' at the Association for Vocational Education.

John Dewey : Lecture 'The duty of educators' : delivered on the 15th anniversary of the Second Teachers College, Shanghai. Liu Boming interpreter. In : Jue wu ; May 30 (1920).

John Dewey : Lecture 'The essential meaning of vocational education'. = Zhi ye jiao yu di jing yi. In : Jue wu ; May 31 (1920).

John Dewey : Lecture 'A social perspective on professional education' at the Tongji School in Wusong and 'Science and people's life' at the Jiangsu Association of Education in Shanghai. Liu Boming interpreter.
Following his speech was a talk by Alice Chipmen Dewey on 'Co-education'. Hu Bingxia interpreter.

John Dewey : Lecture 'The new outlook of life' at the invitation of the Jiangsu Association of Education, at the Zhonghua Vocational School in Shanghai. There were about 1300 listeners.
After this lecture, Dewey went to give a lecture to the Department of Public Relations of the Youth Society.
In the evening, lecture 'The relationship between industry and culture' at the Nanyang Public School.

John Dewey : Lecture 'Students and the nation' at the University of Shanghai (Hujiang College). In the evening, lecture on 'Social evolution' to the Shanghai Youth Association.

John Dewey : Lecture 'The question of co-education' at the Jiangsu Education Association (Jiangsu sheng jiao yu hui), Shanghai. = Nan nü tong xue wen ti. Keng Xiang recorder. In : Jue wu ; June 2 (1920).