Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81
Synopsis:The book is a study of one of the most important projects in China's Self-Strengthening Movement with the Qing government sending 120 young boys to New England to live and study for a decade.
ISBN:9789888028870
Language:English
Author:Edward J. M. Rhoads
Author Biography:Edward J. M. Rhoads is a historian of late nineteenth–early twentieth century China. He is the author of China's Republican Revolution: The Case of Kwangtung, 1895–1913 and Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861–1928. The latter work was awarded the Joseph R. Levenson prize in 2002 as the best book on twentieth-century China by the Association for Asian Studies.
