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John Jung's curator insight,
August 13, 2017 12:57 AM
A comprehensive compilation of biographical and academic backgrounds and achievements of pioneering students at MIT from China in the late 19th century by MIT Professor Emma Teng.
Each photograph on the home screen is actually a menu item, which when clicked will provide much information about the lives and experiences of these remarkable young men.
Some of the students were government sponsored with specific educational goals in mind. Under the "Self-strengthening" movement of the late 19th century, Chinese reformers promoted the acquisition of Western scientific, military and technical knowledge as the key to saving China from imperialist aggression.
Other students were mostly sons of merchants, bankers and compradores who recognized the practical value of Western scientific and engineering education. Families from this social stratum, many of them Christians, could be considered the "early adopters" of Western Learning (西學).
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