A Perpetual Search: Mary Brown Bullock and American Philanthropy and Education in China

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1 See Jiang Yuhong and Mary Brown Bullock, eds., The Legacy of PUMC: Centennial Essays (Xiehe bainian jinian wenji). Beijing: Peking Union Medical College Press, 2017. In Chinese: 蒋育红/[美] 玛丽 · 布洛克 合编, 《协和百年纪念文集》 (北京: 中国协和医科大学出版社, 2017).

2 Mary Brown Bullock, “The Oil Prince’s Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China,” InAsia: Insights and Analysis, The Asia Foundation blog, October 12, 2011.

3 For West and Hayford’s published monographs on these subjects, see Philip West, Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916–1952 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976) and Charles W. Hayford, To the People: James Yen and Village China (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990).

4 C. C. Chen evidentially published his memoir (in collaboration with Frederica M. Bunge), Medicine in Rural China: A Personal Account (University of California Press, 1989). For Mary Brown Bullock’s review of Chen’s book, see the Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. 4 (November 1990): 896–898.

5 Mary Brown Bullock, An American Transplant: The Rockefeller Foundation and Peking Union Medical College (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), xix.

6 For John Fairbank’s review of Bullock’s book, An American Transplant, see The China Quarterly, vol. 89 (March 1982): 125–126.

7 Elizabeth J. Perry, “Higher Education and Authoritarian Resilience: The Case of China, Past and Present,” Harvard-Yenching Institute Working Paper Series, 2015; https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/30822717.

8 Mary Brown Bullock, “Mission Accomplished: The Influence of the CSCPRC on Educational Relations with China,” in Cheng Li, ed., Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978–2003 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), 49–68.

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Hanchao Lu

Hanchao Lu is Professor of History in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the China Research Center in Atlanta.