Book Reviews : Weili YE, Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900-1927. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii + 330 pp. with photographs, bibliographical references, and index. ISBN: 0-8047-3696-0 (hc). Price: $49.50

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-156
Author(s):  
Grace Shen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stanford University

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.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
David Zweig
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
The Way

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.

Book Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-483
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fishing Industry ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
University Of Hawai'i

Reviews of the following books received:Crossing the Gulf: Love and Family in Migrant Lives. Mahdavi, Pardis, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, (2016, ISBN: 978-0-8047-9883-9).Sea of Opportunity: The Japanese Pioneers of the Fishing Industry in Hawaii. Ogawa, Manako. Honolulu, USA: University of Hawai'i Press, (2015, ISBN: 978-0-8248-3961-1).Mexican Migration to the United States. Edited by Harriett D. Romo and Olivia Mogollon-Lopez, Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press (2016, ISBN: 978-1-4773-0902-58).

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