{"id":748,"date":"2012-06-24T23:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T03:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=748"},"modified":"2014-06-07T08:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T12:13:51","slug":"from-the-archivists-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/from-the-archivists-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archivist’s Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Edward J. M. Rhoads.\u00a0 Stepping Forth Into the World: the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81.\u00a0 <\/em>Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 1870s, under the auspices of the Hartford-based Chinese Educational Mission, 120 carefully selected Chinese boys were sent by their government to be educated in American schools.\u00a0 The boys, some as young as ten or eleven, initially stayed with host families, then enrolled in a number of private and public schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts.\u00a0 Many went on to enroll in New England colleges, including Yale and MIT.\u00a0 The students faced not only the challenges of language and curriculum, but of maintaining their cultural identities in an utterly foreign society, one in which anti-Chinese sentiment was growing.\u00a0 The program ended suddenly in 1881 and the students were recalled home, many to face suspicion\u00a0over their newly acquired Western educations and mores.<\/p>\n

Eleven Chinese Educational Mission students attended Williston Seminary.\u00a0 Many excelled in academics, and in such activities as oratory and debate.\u00a0 Several publicly embraced Christianity, an action sure to create controversy both back home and within the CEM.\u00a0 One of the founders of Williston\u2019s Chinese Christian Home Mission, Tan Yaoxun \u201879, actually defected rather than return to China.<\/p>\n

In the first scholarly study of the CEM since Thomas LaFargue\u2019s China\u2019s First Hundred<\/em> (1942) Edward Rhoads\u2019 research brought him to dozens of libraries and archives throughout the Northeast, including Williston\u2019s.\u00a0 Dr. Rhoads\u00a0(Professor Emeritus of History, The University of Texas) tells a compelling, highly readable story of students caught between two worlds.<\/p>\n

Your comments and questions are encouraged!\u00a0 Please use the space below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward J. M. Rhoads.\u00a0 Stepping Forth Into the World: the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81.\u00a0 Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. In the 1870s, under the auspices of the Hartford-based Chinese Educational Mission, 120 carefully selected Chinese boys were sent by their government to be educated in American schools.\u00a0 The boys, … Continue reading From the Archivist’s Bookshelf<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,25],"tags":[95,92,94,93],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archivists-bookshelf","category-williston-seminary","tag-chinese-educational-mission","tag-chinese-students","tag-edward-rhoads","tag-international-students"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}