Research Catalog

Title

"Patriots" or "traitors"? : a history of American-educated Chinese students / Stacey Bieler.

Author

Bieler, Stacey.

Publication

Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, ©2004.

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Details

Description

xv, 527 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Focusing on the significant but often unacknowledged impact American trained Chinese students have played in China during the 20th century, historian Bieler investigates what price China has paid in terms of technological and economic development and social cohesion by choosing the revolutionary path and rejecting these liberal change agents, and what role US pride and policies have played in undermining its own goal of transferring American values to China and building mutual friendship between the two countries. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Subject

• Chinese students > United States > History
• Returned students > China > History
• Chinese students
• Civilization > Western influences
• Returned students
• Chinesischer Student
• Chinezen
• Studenten
• Cultuurconflicten
• Utländska studerande > historia
• Geschichte 1872-2002
• China > Civilization > Western influences
• China
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "An East Gate book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-506) and index.

Contents

Planting talents for the future : the Chinese educational mission, 1872-1881 -- Reaping the whirlwind : China and the United States, 1880-1910 -- Preparing students for the United States : Tsinghua School, 1911-1928 -- Sailing from Shanghai -- Carrying a satchel in a strange land -- Experimenting with democracy -- Student ambassadors -- The road that leads to home -- Smashing the bridge to the West -- No place to display one's talents -- Continuing the quest for modernization : Chinese students in the United States, 1978-2002 -- Timeline -- Appendix A: Chinese students in the United States, 1914 -- Appendix B: List of Boxer Scholars and Tsinghua alumni teaching at Tsinghua, 1925-1926 -- Appendix C: Countries of origin of foreign students in the United States for the academic year 1923-1924 -- Appendix D: Top last schools attended in China, for students in American colleges and universities, 1854-1953 -- Appendix E: "Don'ts" for foreigners when discussing China -- Appendix F: "Truth" about China and the United States -- Appendix G: Top American colleges and universities granting degrees to Chinese students, 1854-1953 -- Appendix H: Fields of study, Chinese students in the United States, 1905-1932 -- Appendix I: "The Return of the donkey."

ISBN

• 0765611864
• 9780765611864
• 9780765611871
• 0765611872

LCCN

2003014562

OCLC

• ocm52554156
• 52554156
• SCSB-8920130

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library