Seeking Modernity in China's Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927. By Weili Ye. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 330 pp. $49.50 (cloth).

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 1042-1043
Author(s):  
Eddy U
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.

Raanan Rein, Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina, trans. Marsha Grenzeback. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 166 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
American Jews ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

This chapter reviews the books Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (2014), by Raanan Rein, translated by Marsha Grenzeback, and Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas (2014), edited by Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin. Rein’s book deals with the “making” of Argentina through football (soccer), while Muscling in on New Worlds focuses on the “making” of the Americas (mainly the one America, called the United States) through sports. Muscling in on New Worlds is a collection of essays that seeks to advance the common theme of sport as “an avenue by which Jews threaded the needle of asserting a Jewish identity.” Topics include Jews as boxers, Jews and football, Jews and yoga, Orthodox Jewish athletes, and American Jews and baseball. There are also essays about the cinematic and literary representations of Jews in sports.

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