• The First Chinese International Students in America

  • Feb 15 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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The First Chinese International Students in America

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  • In the 19th century, an unlikely international initiative took place. Despite the Qing government's reputation for conservatism and isolationist policies, it actually sponsored a group of 120 Chinese boys to study in the United States. This is the story of the Chinese Education Mission (CEM). An ambitious experiment— it built a short lived but very real bridge between two very different worlds. It was a story of political ambition, and cultural collision, but also one of baseball.

    References:

    - My Life in China and America, by Yung Wing

    - When I was a boy in China, by Yan Phou Lee

    - Autobiography with Letters, by William Lyon Phelps

    - 纪录片《幼童》(2004)

    -Dr. Xiaoxing Xi on false science espionage accusations, advocacy, and Oppenheimer, MIT Science Policy Review


    Cover photo:

    The "Orientals" baseball club of the CEM boys, taken in front of the Chinese Educational Mission Headquarters, Hartford, 1878. 2-1-11, Thomas E. LaFargue Papers, 1873-1946.

    Courtesy Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University Libraries.
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