Chinese and Americans
Subtitle: a shared history
By: Xu Guoqi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780674052536
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Americans; Chinese; Relations; History
Description: "Xu begins with the story of Anson Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to China, and the 120 Chinese students he played a crucial role in bringing to America, inaugurating a program of Chinese international study that continues today. Such educational crosscurrents moved both ways, as is evident in Xu's profile of the remarkable Ge Kunhua, the Chinese poet who helped spearhead Chinese language teaching in Boston in the 1870s. Xu examines the contributions of two American scholars to Chinese political and educational reform in the twentieth century: the law professor Frank Goodnow, who took part in making the Yuan Shikai government's constitution; and the philosopher John Dewey, who helped promote Chinese modernization as a visiting scholar at Peking University and elsewhere. Xu also shows that it was Americans who first introduced to China the modern Olympic movement, and that China has used sports ever since to showcase its rise as a global power. These surprising shared traditions between two nations, Xu argues, provide the best roadmap for the future of Sino-American relations." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the surprising shared history of Chinese and Americans; title: Anson Burlingame : China's first messenger to the world; title: The Chinese education mission : 120 Chinese boys in nineteenth-century America; title: Ge Kunhua : America's first Chinese language teacher; title: Frank Goodnow : an American adviser in China; title: John Dewey : a Yankee Confucius and cultural ambassador; title: Shared diplomatic journey through sports.