The American-Returned Students : Educational Networks and New Forms of Business in Early Republican China

Peter E. HAMILTON

doi:10.1163/9789004520479_010

The American-Returned Students : Educational Networks and New Forms of Business in Early Republican China

Peter E. HAMILTON^*

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Abstract

Scholars have long emphasized the key role played by foreign translations and transnational circulations of knowledge in the seismic evolutions of the late Qing and Republican eras. From the establishment of the Tongwenguan (同文館) in 1862 and the first overseas educational missions of the 1870s to missionary schools and the translations of Yan Fu (嚴復), these new circuits of knowledge production accelerated both social and political change, from the Qing state’s modernization efforts to everyday urban life.1 In turn, scholars have long emphasized the abolition of the civil service examinations in 1905 as a turning-point in both educational reform and the political foment that would culminate in the 1911 Revolution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Knowledge, Power, and Networks : Elites in Transition in Modern China
Editors	Cécile ARMAND, Christian HENRIOT, Huei-min SUN
Publisher	Brill
Chapter	9
Pages	258-288
Number of pages	31
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004520479
ISBN (Print)	9789004506985
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004520479_010
Publication status	Published - Sept 2022

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Name	Studies on Modern East Asian History
Publisher	Brill
Volume	3
ISSN (Print)	2468-8223

Bibliographical note

Portions of this chapter appeared in the author's book Made in Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a New History of Globalization (Columbia University Press, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 2021).

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Knowledge, Power, and Networks : Elites in Transition in Modern China. ed. / Cécile ARMAND; Christian HENRIOT; Huei-min SUN. Brill, 2022. p. 258-288 (Studies on Modern East Asian History; Vol. 3).

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