This title sxplores the love-hate relationship between the USA and China through the experience of Chinese students caught between the two countries. The book sheds light on China's ambivelance towards the Western influence, and the use of educational and cultural exhanges as a political device.

Introduction, Chronology or Chinese Students' Lives, Prologue. Planting Talents for the Future: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872-1881 Chapter 1. Reaping the Whirlwind: China and the United States, 1880-1910 : Associate General Secretary of the YMCA in Beijing Chapter 2. Preparing Students for the United States: Tsinghua School, 1911-1928 : China's Liaison Officer to the U.S. Army under General MacArthur : A Student's Mixed Feelings Chapter 3. Sailing from Shanghai : Rural Welfare Advocate Chapter 4. Carrying a Satchel in a Strange Land : A Historian : Providing a Spiritual Home Chapter 5. Experimenting with Democracy : Representing China in Washington and Geneva Chapter 6. Student Ambassadors : The First Chinese Woman University Professor : The Influence of One Hospitable Man : China's Ambassador to the United States during World War II Chapter 7. The Road that Leads to Home : The Rural Reconstruction Revolutionary: Saving China through Science : Educating the Common and the Gifted Saving China's Universities Chapter 8. Smashing the Bridge to the West A Human Rights Advocate Saving China's Heritage Chapter 9. No Place to Display One's Talents, Epilogue. Continuing the Quest for Modernization: Chinese Students in the United States, 1978-2002