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From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History. By Yü Ying-shih. Translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2021. $114.99 (cloth); $49.99 (paper)

Journal of Chinese History, 2022, Vol.6 (2), p.391-394

Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press ;ISSN: 2059-1632 ;EISSN: 2059-1640 ;DOI: 10.1017/jch.2022.23

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    From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History. By Yü Ying-shih. Translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2021. $114.99 (cloth); $49.99 (paper)
  • Author: Dennerline, Jerry
  • Subjects: Archaeology ; Asian history ; Asian students ; Autobiographies ; Chinese history ; Collaboration ; Cultural anthropology ; Culture ; Friendship ; Learning ; Propaganda
  • Is Part Of: Journal of Chinese History, 2022, Vol.6 (2), p.391-394
  • Description: In the poem, Yü Ying-shih recalls standing with his mentor near New Asia College, Hong Kong, in the 1950s to view the wind roiling the sea, admiring Qian's lifelong dedication to the preservation of Chinese classical learning in tumultuous times, and promising to continue his mentor's effort despite his own shortcomings. [...]having lived and attended school in his father's isolated ancestral village between 1937 and 1946, Yü was striving to assimilate to the New China as a college student and member of the New Democracy Youth Corps at Yanjing University in 1949 when a visitor from the village, who was a Christian pastor, reported to him that life for poor people there was becoming more difficult under the new regime. Rather than lecture him, Qian Mu let him find his own way from his early Marxist understanding of the Three Kingdoms to his life-long quest to broaden his knowledge by using the tools and concepts of comparative history, political science, social and cultural anthropology, and archaeology without allowing them to displace the fundamental sense that Chinese culture had produced its own comparable but distinct ways of adapting to the changes that had led to Europe's own distinct narratives from Renaissance to Enlightenment to modern science and democracy. The account goes on, but for his goal of providing a reference for “a new generation of young friends seeking knowledge,” Yü has organized his narrative around the theme of three periods of Chinese Humanities scholars, by which he means scholars who were ethnically and culturally Chinese, at Harvard—1915–1925, late 1930s–late 1940s, and what he calls “a completely new turn” in the 1950s, the period of his own experience.
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2059-1632
    EISSN: 2059-1640
    DOI: 10.1017/jch.2022.23
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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