Chinese and Americans : A Shared History / Xu Guoqi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Guoqi, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--China--History.

Americans.

Chinese--United States--History.

Chinese.

United States--Relations--China.

United States.

China--Relations--United States.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chinese-American relations are often viewed through the prism of power rivalry and civilization clash. But China and America's shared history is much more than a catalog of conflicts. Using culture rather than politics or economics as a reference point, Xu Guoqi highlights significant yet neglected cultural exchanges in which China and America have contributed to each other's national development, building the foundation of what Zhou Enlai called a relationship of "equality and mutual benefit." 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword / Iriye, Akira

A Note on the Spelling of Chinese Names

Introduction: The Surprising Shared History of Chinese and Americans

Part One. Messengers of the Nineteenth Century

1. Anson Burlingame: China's First Messenger to the World

2. The Chinese Education Mission: Chinese Schoolboys in Nineteenth- Century America

3. Ge Kunhua: America's First Chinese Language Teacher

Part Two. The Internationalization of China and the United States

4. Frank Goodnow: An American Adviser in China

5. John Dewey: A Yankee Confucius and Cultural Ambassador

Part Three. Popular Culture and Sino- American Relations

6. Shared Diplomatic Journey through Sports

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Inlcudes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780674966901

0674966902

9780674736290

067473629X

OCLC:

892430057