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| Abstract : Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris |
| The aim of this paper is to review the history of Chinese language education in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia, and state the tortuous and difficult processes that intellectuals had to go through to pass on the torch of Chinese language education
in a changing world. Based on Ch’ien Mu, Lin Yutang, and Shen Muyu's stories for promoting Chinese language education after 1949, this paper states how intellectuals implemented Chinese language and humanistic spirit into the education systems in foreign lands, as well as how they put into practice their care for lives and passed on
the torch of Chinese language education. Ch’ien Mu established an academic institution in the British colony. He had to face the fact that mainland China abandoned the tradition at the time and he put all his efforts into saving the critical situation, which should not only be regarded as a legend in a poverty situation, but we shall also carefully study how he valued the importance of literature, humanity and general education. It is not difficult to realize from the frustration of Ch’ien Mu and Lin Yutang that the risk and chaos of Chinese descent had been encountered under the political culture of colonization and foreign countries. The ideological state apparatus always utilizes a variety of mobilization methods to integrate culture and ideas for homogeneity. With its characteristics and resistance force, the torch of the Chinese language is indeed not easy to be passed on, unless the intellectuals were able to be united to fight ceaselessly with sufficient forces from the society. Moreover, Shen Muyu represented a glimmer of light on a dark rainy night. Based on the awareness of protecting fundamental rights, Shen combined the strength from the education industry, business industry, and communities to conduct a long-term fight to empower Malaysia to become the country with the most comprehensive Chinese language education system outside mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. It is obvious that passing on the torch of Chinese Language is not a matter of course, but instead, the spark of literature can only be ignited through the processes of the fierce argument between intellectuals and education environment, political culture and intellectual power, along with their dedicated beliefs, ideas, and persistence.
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