Chinese and Americans : 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...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.