Cross-cultural team teaching in China*

While the Chinese government's current decision to promote reform in tertiary education is especially welcome at this time, this is only one in a series of reforms going back at least to the end of the nineteenth century. In 1885, for instance, the Reverend B.C. Henry and Dr. Andrew Happer moved to Guangzhou and in 1888, among other endeavours of the American Presbyterian Mission, established Canton Christian College, among the first of many colleges in China begun by American, French and German missionaries. In 1893, building on this enterprise, the Trustees of the Presbyterian Mission House in New York City applied to the Regents of the University of the State of New York for a charter to formalise this Christian college. This charter was approved that year, and at the same time, the Trustees of Lingnan University were established to help provide funding for this new institution. The college itself eventually became Lingnan University and the Trustees the Lingnan Foundation. ¹