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Chinese Students Educated in the
US: 1880-1930
Xia He
May 03 2013
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Purpose of Research
Although this period of history is only eighty
years ago, Chinese students from then were
significantly different from the Chinese
students we encounter now, in terms of
perseverance, attitude and the process of
embracing a different culture. This study is to
examine students in those perspectives and
understand the connection to the present.
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Research Questions
• For what reason did Chinese come to study?
• How were they sponsored?
• What did they study?
• What major challenges did they encounter?
• What happened to them after they went back
to China?
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The Three Groups of Students
• Chinese Educational Mission
• Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program
• Female Students
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Resources
• Qian Ning (2002). Chinese Students Encounter
America. Seattle and London: University of
Washington Press
• Weili Ye (2001). Seeking Modernity in China’s
Name: Chinese Students in the United States,
1900-1927. Stanford, California. Stanford
University Press
• Erica Lee (2003). At America’s Gates: Chinese
Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.
Chapel Hill and London: The University of North
Carolina Press
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Ideas from Resources
• Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese
Students in the United States, 1900-1927: did
a thorough study of Chinese female students.
It provides a good view of how these students
changed China during a time when China was
full of war wounds.
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Ideas from Resources
• Chinese Students Encounter America: gives a
short history of America-educated students.
• At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration
during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943: offers a
complete description of the Exclusion Laws
against Chinese
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Interesting Factors
• Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program led to
the establishment of the Harvard of China
• Students mostly chose practical subjects
• During their travel to the US, some took a
whole year to their destination due to
immigration policies
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Interesting Factors
• Government was heavily involved in these
students’ education in terms of subjects
• Most of these students went back to China
• Many of them became pioneers in their own
fields
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Conclusion
• Chinese students educated in the U.S. from
1820 to 1930 were the beginning of effects of
globalization in the transfer of technical
college
• American higher education opened its door to
expand opportunities to many more Chinese
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