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Sowing the seeds of change : Chinese students, Japanese teachers, 1895-1905

Title: Sowing the seeds of change : Chinese students, Japanese teachers, 1895-1905 / Paula Harrell.
Author: Harrell, Paula, 1939-
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1992.

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Description

289 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the critical decade between the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, perhaps as many as 10,000 Chinese students converged on Tokyo in what was the first large study-abroad movement anywhere in the world." "Following China's defeat by Japan in 1895, sending young Chinese to Japan for schooling seemed wise policy to leaders in both countries. To reform-minded pragmatists at the helm of Ch'ing government, study in Japan meant access to modern ideas and technology that would strengthen the state and their own power. To Japan's leaders, training thousands of young Chinese fit their objective of creating a strong China under Japanese tutelage; together, the two countries could form an Asian bulwark against the encroachments of the West. But this blueprint for study abroad failed to consider what the students' own goals might be for a modernizing China." "For the Chinese students, exposure to an economically stronger, intellectually more open Japan inspired visions of a new China, free of Ch'ing mismanagement, more broadly representative politically, and capable of holding back imperialism in any form, Western or Japanese. Increasingly alienated from the Ch'ing state, Japan-educated activists boldly proclaimed their anti-authoritarian views and were a key force in the rising tide of dissidence propelling China to revolution in 1911."
"Among the topics the author considers are the emergence of official and popular support for study in Japan, the socio-economic background of the students, their psychological interaction with the Japanese, case studies of student protest movements, and the nature of students' intellectual and political concerns. In developing a new political outlook, the students grappled with many of the issues confronting China nearly a century later: how far to open the door to Western influence, how to relate to an economically strong Japan, how much political reform should accompany technological and economic change, and, above all, how to become modern and remain distinctively Chinese."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

Studies of the East Asian Institute.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Origins of the Study-in-Japan Program -- 2. Study Tours for Chinese Officials -- 3. Student Encounter with Japan -- 4. Beginnings of Student Activism -- 5. Seijo School Incident, 1902 -- 6. Rise of Anti-Imperialism, 1903 -- 7. Formation of Revolutionary Groups, 1903-1905 -- 8. Climax of Student Protest, 1905 -- 9. Student Political Awakening, 1900-1905.

ISBN

0804719853
9780804719858

LCCN

91039189

OCLC

ocm24696969
24696969
SCSB-8900566

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library