Patriots or Traitors

Stacey Bieler

• Introduction, Chronology or Chinese Students’ Lives, Prologue. Planting Talents for the Future: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872–1881 Chapter 1. Reaping the Whirlwind: China and the United States, 1880–1910 : Associate General Secretary of the YMCA in Beijing Chapter 2. Preparing Students for the United States: Tsinghua School, 1911–1928 : China’s Liaison Officer to the U.S. Army under General MacArthur : A Student’s Mixed Feelings Chapter 3. Sailing from Shanghai : Rural Welfare Advocate Chapter 4. Carrying a Satchel in a Strange Land : A Historian : Providing a Spiritual Home Chapter 5. Experimenting with Democracy : Representing China in Washington and Geneva Chapter 6. Student Ambassadors : The First Chinese Woman University Professor : The Influence of One Hospitable Man : China’s Ambassador to the United States during World War II Chapter 7. The Road that Leads to Home : The Rural Reconstruction Revolutionary: Saving China through Science : Educating the Common and the Gifted Saving China’s Universities Chapter 8. Smashing the Bridge to the West A Human Rights Advocate Saving China’s Heritage Chapter 9. No Place to Display One’s Talents, Epilogue. Continuing the Quest for Modernization: Chinese Students in the United States, 1978–2002