03748nam 22006254a 450 991082673120332120240515214338.00-8047-8041-210.1515/9780804780414(CKB)1000000000007152(OCoLC)70770592(CaPaEBR)ebrary10042954(SSID)ssj0000284029(PQKBManifestationID)11236347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284029(PQKBWorkID)10251310(PQKB)10657708(MiAaPQ)EBC3037469(Au-PeEL)EBL3037469(CaPaEBR)ebr10042954(OCoLC)923699772(DE-B1597)581556(DE-B1597)9780804780414(EXLCZ)99100000000000715220000905d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSeeking modernity in China's name Chinese students in the United States, 1900-1927 /Weili Ye1st ed.Stanford Stanford University Press20011 online resource (356 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-3696-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --A Note on Romanization --Introduction --CHAPTER ONE Student Associational Life and Chinese Nationalism --CHAPTER TWO The Professionals: Predicaments and Promises --CHAPTER THREE The Question of Race --CHAPTER FOUR The Women's Story, 1880s-1920s --CHAPTER FIVE Between Morality and Romance --CHAPTER SIX The Serious Business of Recreation --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Character List --IndexThe students who came to the United States in the early twentieth century to become modern Chinese by studying at American universities played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. These former students exemplified key aspects of Chinese "modernity," introducing new social customs, new kinds of interpersonal relationships, new ways of associating in groups, and a new way of life in general. Although there have been books about a few especially well-known persons among them, this is the first book in either English or Chinese to study the group as a whole. The collapse of the traditional examination system and the need to earn a living outside the bureaucracy meant that although this was not the first generation of Chinese to break with traditional ways of thinking, these students were the first generation of Chinese to live differently. Based on student publications, memoirs, and other writings found in this country and in China, the author describes their multifaceted experience of life in a foreign, modern environment, involving student associations, professional activities, racial discrimination, new forms of recreation and cultural expression, and, in the case of women students, the unique challenges they faced as females in two changing societies.Chinese studentsUnited StatesBiographyChineseEducation (Higher)United StatesHistory20th centuryReturned studentsChinaBiographyChinaCivilization20th centuryChinese studentsChineseEducation (Higher)HistoryReturned students378.1/9829951073Ye Weili1621073MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826731203321Seeking modernity in China's name3954192UNINA