Review of Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. Guo-qi Xu, Chinese and Americans: A Shared History, 332pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2014

The subject of the part one is messengers of the nineteenth century. It mainly describes the early intercourse between Late Qing China and the United States, which began in the 1860s, through the following three historical events: the Anson Burlingame Embassy toward the western powers, the Chinese Education Mission in the nineteenth century America, and Ge Kunhua’s, extraordinary experience as the first Chinese language teacher in the United States. The first part gives us a full sense of the progressive spirit of the Chinese people in the process of modernization and