From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes examines the history and globalization of cultural exchange between the US and China and corrects many myths surrounding the incompatibility of American and Chinese cultures in the higher educational sphere.

Introduction: Trajectories of the History of Sino-American Educational Exchange PART I: Student-Faculty Exchanges in Late Qing-Early Republican Era 1. The World's Chinese Students' Journal and American-influenced Education Reforms on the Eve of Revolution in China, 1905-1911 2. The Emerging Chinese Public Intellectual: Ma Yinchu in the United States, 1907-1914 3. Sailing to China: The Transnational Experience of Gregory Dexter Walcott at Tsinghua PART II: Curriculum Development and Campus Experience in Nanjing Decade 4. Being Human: Yenching Educator Wu Leichuan and a Struggling China 5. Trans-Pacific Development Agents: Chinese Female Students and American Rural Extension Education in the Republican Period 6. Educational Crisis in Shanxi: An Analysis of Brethren Mission Schools in Republican China PART III: Co-opting Students in Cold War/Maoist Era 7. The International Education Constituency and the Student Turn in Sino-American Relations in the Mid-Twentieth Century 8. Preaching Anti-Americanism on Campus: College Students and the Propaganda State in Revolutionary China 9. Churchman, Banker, Educator: Lam Chi-Fung and American Church Resources in the Making of Hong Kong Baptist College PART IV: Confucius Institutes in the United States 10. China's Soft Power Strategy at the Confucius Institutes in the U.S. 11. Confucius Institutes in the U.S.: Legal Considerations 12. [Un]Free Speech: Constructing Modernity in the Confucius Institutes Epilogue