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The Chinese Educational Mission (1872–1881) was the pioneering but frustrated attempt by reform-minded officials of the Qing dynasty to let a group of 120 Chinese students educated in the United States. In 1871, Yung Wing, himself the first Chinese graduate of Yale University, persuaded the Chinese government to send supervised groups of young Chinese boys to the United States to study Western science and engineering. With the government's eventual approval, he organized what came to be known as the Chinese Educational Mission, which included 120 students, some under the age of ten, to study in the New England region of the United States beginning in 1872. The boys arrived in several detachments and lived with American families in Hartford, Connecticut and other New England towns. After graduating high school, the boys went on to college, especially at Yale. When a new supervisory official arrived, he found that they had adopted many American customs, such as playing baseball, and felt

Chinese Educational Mission - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Qing dynasty program A student on the Chinese Educational Mission on the baseball team at Phillips Exeter Academy Yung Wing and the Chinese College at Hartford, Connecticut Six First Detachment students on arrival in California The Chinese Educational Mission (1872–1881) was the pioneering but frustrated attempt by reform-minded officials of the Qing dynasty to let a group of 120 Chinese students be educated in the United States. History [ edit ] The 1868 Burlingame Treaty between China and the United

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