The Chinese Educational Mission was the earliest effort at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 young boys to New England to live and study for a decade, before abruptly summoning them home to China in 1881. The returned students helped staff numerous other modernization projects; some rose to top administrative and political posts in the Qing government. This book, based upon extensive research in US archives and newspapers, sheds new light on the students during their nine-year stay in the United States, and it compares their lives with those of the Japanese students in New England at about the same time. This detailed study of one of the most important projects in China's Self-Strengthening Movement will appeal to historians of modern China as well as to comparative historians of China and Japan. The book also contrasts the experiences of the Chinese Educational Mission students with those of other Chinese in the United States during a period of anti-Chinese sentiment, which was to culminate in the enactment of Chinese Exclusion in 1882. Its conclusion that the anti- Chinese movement may have been as much class-based as race-based will provide much food for thought to scholars of Asian American studies.
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Stepping Forth into the World
The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872–81
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Stepping Forth into the World
The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872–81
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- Front Cover
- Book Synopsis
- Author Biography
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Origins
- 2 Recruitment
- 3 Preparatory Training
- 4 En Route to the New World
- 5 The American Host Families
- 6 The Chinese Educational Commission
- 7 Elementary and Secondary Schooling
- 8 The Students in College
- 9 Becoming Americanized?
- 10 Recall and Return
- 11 The Returned Students
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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