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Seeking Modernity China's Name: Chinese Students the United States, 1900-1927
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Seeking Modernity China's Name: Chinese Students the United States, 1900-1927
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Seeking Modernity China's Name: Chinese Students the United States, 1900-1927
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The collapse of the traditional examination system and the need to earn a living outside the bureaucracy meant that although this was not the first generation of Chinese to break with traditional ways of thinking, these students were the first generation of Chinese to
differently. Based on student publications, memoirs, and other writings found in this country and in China, the author describes their multifaceted experience of life in a foreign, modern environment, involving student associations, professional activities, racial discrimination, new forms of recreation and cultural expression, and, in the case of women students, the unique challenges they faced as females in two changing societies.