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Returning to the Middle Kingdom: Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2014

LIAN XI
LIAN XI*
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Duke University, North Carolina, United States of America Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article re-examines the frustrated Westernizing efforts of Yung Wing and the recalled students of the Chinese Educational Mission to the United States (1872–1881). It does so in response to recent scholarship (in both the Chinese and the English languages) which affirms the ‘transformative role’ of the returnees in late Qing reform and modernization. On the basis of a variety of sources, this article suggests, instead, that for those patriotic students returning to the Middle Kingdom, eager to bring about a fundamental change in its political system and rejuvenation of its civilization, disillusionment was often inevitable, and the choice—short of revolution—became one of either marginalization or co-option by the autocratic state. Despite all their achievements, China's earliest students of the West ultimately failed to set the country upon a new modernizing course—a failure that pointed, beyond itself, to an emerging (and subsequently persistent) pattern in the troubled relationship between the new, Westernized elite and the state in modern China.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 150 - 176
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Research for this paper was funded by the Faculty Research Grant from Hanover College. In the course of its evolution, the manuscript has benefited significantly from the criticisms of the anonymous reviewers. I also wish to thank my colleague and friend Melissa Eden for her comments and suggestions on the final draft of this article.

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68 Yung Wing, My Life in China and America, pp. 241–42.

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86 These include Chen Zhu, minister of health; Wan Gang, minister of science and technology; and Zhou Ji, former minister of education. For a list of contemporary returnees in senior government positions, see Li Liang and Dong Shuhua, ‘Xinyidai “haigui” guanyuan jiandan zhengtan zhongren (New Generation of “Returnee” Officials Increasingly Assume Key Political Posts)’, Renminwang (People's Net), 1 July 2005, <http://www.people.com.cn/GB/paper2836/15248/1352053.html>, [accessed 28 March 2014].

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