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Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927. By Weili Ye. [Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. 330 pp. $49.50. ISBN 0-8047-3696-0.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2003

David Zweig
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Extract

They went to America to learn the skills to make China modern and along the way they transformed themselves. Some of the earliest pioneers, women trained in missionary schools before going to America in the late 19th century, returned to China as medical doctors and created a new profession in China.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 173 , March 2003 , pp. 214 - 251
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© The China Quarterly, 2003

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