Tong Shao-Yi and his family : a saga of two countries and three generations / David G. Hinners.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinners, David G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tang, Shaoyi, 1860-1938--Family.

Tang, Shaoyi.

Tang, Shaoyi, 1860-1938.

Statesmen--China--Biography.

Statesmen.

Families.

China.

China--Politics and government--1912-1949.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 115 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [1999]

Summary:

Tong Shao-Yi and His Family presents a biography of the Chinese statesman Tong Shao-Yi, one of the first hundred boys sent from China in the 1870's to live with American families and attend American schools. Tong returned to China in 1881 to become a prot g of the statesman Yuan Shikai and the most influential of the "Young China" group of Western-educated diplomats and officials.

Contents:

Chapter I The First Generation: Under the Ch'ing Empire, 1870-1911 1

Chapter II Tong Shao-yi and the Politics of Republican China, 1911-1938 33

Chapter III The Second Generation: In the U.S. and China up to World War II 59

Chapter IV The Post-War Years: The Tong Family Under the Communist System 69

I. "International Living: An Old Experiment" by Helen G. Williams, from New England Galaxy, Winter 1966 89

II. Photographs of Wall Hangings

1. The "Ever Shine Star Gentleman" 99

2. The pale blue satin hanging 100

III. Family Tree: Eugene C. Gardner 101

IV. Family Tree: Tong Shao-yi 102

V. Map of China, 1948 105.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [113]-115).

ISBN:

0761813926

OCLC:

40954072