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Ma Xiangbo was born in 1840 and became a pioneer of educational reform during the republican period. He was responsible for introducing the idea that science and humanities should be valued equally in liberal arts education, a concept that became key to the model of university education. Ma’s view of education combined Western humanism and science with classical Confucian humanism. His ideas still have a referential value for contemporary Chinese higher education and society.
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Jiang, Y.G. Liberal Arts in China’s Modern Universities: Lessons from the Great Catholic Educator and Statesman, Ma Xiangbo. Front Educ China 7, 292–308 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03396948
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