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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Jian, Xiao-Yang. "Cross-Culture Philanthropy: Rockefeller Donors and Chinese Recipients 1911-1921," American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, May 1994.
This is a qualitative study of the Rockefeller Foundation’s gift of Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) to China, focusing on the mode of gift-giving between the two institutions and the historical and cultural impact on giving and receiving. The gift of PUMC, whose medical science was conceived as the best way to uplift China by the donors, did not engage the recipients who were preoccupied with political chaos, hostility toward foreigners and difficulties in adopting Western sciences. The dissertation promotes an awareness of the role of recipients in a gift relationship and proposes a working model philanthropists can follow to achieve expected goals.
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