Portland Public Library

Chinese and Americans, a shared history, Xu Guoqi

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index

index present

non fiction

Chinese and Americans

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Xu Guoqi

a shared history

"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

Introduction : The surprising shared history of Chinese and Americans -- Part I. Messengers of the nineteenth century : Anson Burlingame: China's first messenger to the world -- The Chinese education mission: Chinese schoolboys in nineteenth-century America -- Ge Kunhua: America's first Chinese language teacher -- Part II. The internationalization of China and the United States : Frank Goodnow: an American adviser in China -- John Dewey: a Yankee Confucius and cultural ambassador -- Part III. Popular culture and Sino-American relations : Shared diplomatic journey through sports