David G. Hinners

Tong Shao-Yi and His Family

A Saga of Two Countries and Three Generations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tong Shao-Yi and His Family presents a biography of the Chinese statesman Tong Shao-Yi, one of the first hundred boys sent from China in the 1870's to live with American families and attend American schools. Tong returned to China in 1881 to become a protégé of the statesman Yuan Shikai and the most influential of the "Young China" group of Western-educated diplomats and officials.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780761813927
• ISBN-10: 0761813926
• Artikelnr.: 31206678

Autorenporträt

David G. Hinners is a retired Social Science Research Analyst for the Department of Justice, the Bureau of the Census; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and the State Department.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The First Generation: Under the Ch'ing
Chapter 3 Tong Shao-Yi and the Politics of Republican China Chapter 4
1911-1938, The Second Generation: In the U.S. and China Up to World War II
Chapter 5 The Post War Years: The Tong Family Under the Communist System
Chapter 6 Epilogue; Appendices: "International Living: An Old Experiment:"
Photographs of Wall Hangings Chapter 7 Family Tree: Eugene C. Gardner,
Family Tree: Tong Shao-Yi Chapter 8 Map of China, 1948 Chapter 9 Notes
Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 About the Author