Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Chinese and Americans : A Shared History / Xu Guoqi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) : 25 halftonesContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780674052536
  • 9780674736290
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.73051 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674736290

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 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

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)