[Chinese Americana]: [Tsinghua College]:

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WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN RETURNED STUDENTS [Chinese title: YOU MEI TONG XUE LU]. A rare and intriguing publication from the earliest days of China's leading university, directly tied to its original purpose as a training ground for future foreign exchange students headed to America. Tsinghua College was established at the particular request of the United States: after the failure of the Boxer Rebellion, China was required to pay indemnities to Japan and the allied Western nations which had defeated it. The Americans agreed to reduce their portion of the indemnity from $30 million to just under $11 million, on the condition that the money would be used to send Chinese students abroad to the United States. Thus, Tsinghua College was formed in 1911 with the goal of preparing its pupils for study in America.The present volume was published by the institution in 1917, and seeks to situate their mission in the ongoing tradition of modern education in China. Noting the numerous recent setbacks suffered by powers on mainland Asia at the hands of "Westernized" nations such as Japan and the United States, college president Y.T. Tsur emphasizes the importance of a modern, liberal education for China's youth, a trend which he traces back to the early 1870s. "It does not seem possible to give an adequate estimate of what the students as a whole have done for their country," he writes, "But probably it is within the bounds of safety as well as propriety to say that it has been entirely due to

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