A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT

A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT Initiative for U.S.- Dialogue 乔治城大学 美中全球议题对话项目

The Georgetown Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues is a university-wide platform for research, teaching, and high-level dialogue among American and Chinese leaders from the public sector, business, and the academy. Created in January 2016 through a gift from the -based Spring Breeze Foundation, the initiative is premised on the view that despite inevitable national differences, there remains considerable room for the cultivation of shared approaches to global issues including climate change, global health, business and trade, peace and security, and economic and social development. The initiative is organized around four core principles: independence, transparency, balance, and academic excellence. Georgetown University has a rich history of dialogue and engagement with China. A leading global university located in Washington, D.C., Georgetown has educated generations of young people for service to the nation and the world. As the United States emerged as a world power during the late nineteenth century, Georgetown graduates reached out to China through commerce, diplomacy, and cultural exchange. Now, in the twenty-first century, Georgetown continues to deepen its ties with China through research, teaching, and dialogue around pressing issues in U.S.-China relations and world affairs. As a Jesuit institution, Georgetown also carries forward the legacy of Matteo Ricci, S.J. (1552-1610), an early missionary whose deep appreciation of Chinese language, philosophy, and customs forged a model for productive intercultural encounter.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 5 Georgetown University’s Georgetown involvement with China 1885 dates back to the second President Grover Cleveland and China appoints Georgetown College half of the nineteenth alumnus Charles Denby as in the century when graduates the U.S. minister to China. Nineteenth began to travel to Asia He serves as head of the U.S. legation from 1885 to 1898 Century and pursue diplomacy and holds the record as the and commerce. longest serving U.S. emissary to China. His son, Charles Denby, Jr., becomes a leading U.S. diplomat and a scholar of Chinese language and culture, and he helps to mediate the negotiations that end the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895.

6 “I suppose there is no country in the world that is more underrated than China. Nevertheless, a cursory glance at history and present conditions of that country will convince the observer that the Chinese are entitled to more consideration among Western peoples, by virtue of their civilization, than is now accorded them.” —Charles Denby, 1905

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 7 In 1919, in the wake of Georgetown World War I, Georgetown and China founds the Walsh School of 1919 Foreign Service (SFS) Chinfu Wang-Shia, former in the First in order to train a new general and war hero in the generation of U.S. diplo- army of Republican China, Half of the begins teaching Chinese in Twentieth mats and international the newly established School professionals. Georgetown of Foreign Service. Chinfu Century faculty and graduates Wang-Shia served for a time as an assistant to Dr. Sun play an important role in Yat-sen, who is considered shepherding U.S.-China the founding father of relations during the modern China, and who is honored in the marble interwar years. bust pictured above.

8 1920 1920 Cai Yuanpei (pictured William F. Willoughby is right), president of Peking appointed in the SFS to teach University, visits Georgetown about China and East Asia. and gives a lecture on Chinese Willoughby had previously civilization. He is the leading served as an adviser to Chinese Chinese liberal educator of general and president Yuan the early twentieth century Shikai (1914-1916). He also and plays a major role in the went on to serve as the first development of a new spirit director of the Brookings of nationalism and social Institution. reform in China.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 9 1926 Richard P. Butrick (SFS’21) takes up his post at the U.S. Consulate General in Hangzhou. He later serves in and . When the Imperial Japanese Army invades Beijing, he is detained for six months. Later 1927 1924 he serves as director of the Simon Tsu (Zhu Kaimin), Wai-Hing Tso (SFS’24) is Foreign Service (1949-1952) S.J., is the first Chinese the first Chinese student to and receives a Georgetown Catholic bishop to visit graduate from Georgetown. University President's Medal. Georgetown.

10 1932 U.S. diplomat Raymond P. Ludden (SFS’30) is assigned to China, where he would spend the next 17 years. A top China expert, he goes on to work with General Joseph Stilwell to coordinate U.S.-China military cooperation during World War II. He serves as a liaison with the Chinese Communist leadership and travels behind Japanese lines more than once to 1946 consult with them as part of the war effort. In this photograph China’s first Catholic from 1944, Ludden (center) is standing with Chairman Mao cardinal, Thomas Tien Zedong (right of center) and Premier Zhou Enlai and Marshal Ken-sin (Tian Gengxin), Zhu De (left of center) in Yan’an. visits Georgetown.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 11 1947 Ramon Kan (C’47), pictured above (left), is the first Chinese student to graduate from Georgetown after World War II. He becomes the assistant 1955 manager of International 1951 Alexis Johnson (SFS’32), Underwriters Insurance in Sir Eric Hotung (C’51), U.S. ambassador in Hong Kong. pictured above (right), Czechoslovakia, begins graduates from Georgetown. long-running U.S.-China A successful businessman, talks in Geneva. These talks he is renowned for his help to lay the groundwork philanthropic activities in for President ’s 1949 China, East Timor, Sri Lanka, historic visit to China in Georgetown’s new School of and around the world; for 1972. Johnson had a long Languages and Linguistics construction of hospitals and history in China, having been establishes a Chinese schools; and for humanitarian first appointed U.S. vice- language major. and disaster relief. consul in Tientsin in 1939.

12 1958 Father Joseph Sebes, S.J., is hired to develop 1958 the graduate program in East Asian history Anna Chennault joins the Georgetown at Georgetown. An authority on the Jesuit staff to work on Chinese dictionaries at the mission in China who had served there School of Languages and Linguistics. She himself from 1938 to 1947, Fr. Sebes teaches was the wife of World War II hero Claire until his retirement in 1976. His book Lee Chennault, founder of the “Flying Tigers” The Jesuits and the Sino-Russian Treaty of who fought in China during the war. In this Nerchinsk is still recognized as a classic photograph from 1961, Mrs. Chennault is work of scholarship. visiting with President John F. Kennedy.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 13 After President Nixon’s Georgetown historic visit to Beijing and China in 1972, Georgetown 1972 is quickly drawn into Georgetown Professor Chi after Beijing Wang (G‘69) represents the U.S. effort to rebuild the U.S. government in Opens to relations with China. 1972 in negotiations to reestablish cultural ties the West with China, including a publication exchange between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Beijing.

14 1972 Rory Marie Hayden (SLL’74) serves as an 1973 interpreter for the Ch’en Chia, an English professor at Nanking University, Chinese table tennis team leads the first group of Chinese linguists to visit Georgetown. (above, meeting President In these photographs, he is received by Georgetown University Nixon) during their first President Fr. Robert J. Henle, S.J. (right), and accompanied by visit to the United States. Rory Marie Hayden (left).

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 15 1974 James Soong Chu-yu (G’74) receives his doctorate in international relations from Georgetown. He is 1977 the founder of the People Former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger accepts an First Party and has run for appointment as a professor in Georgetown's Walsh School of president of the Republic of Foreign Service, where he engages students with stories China several times. of his historic negotiations with Chairman Mao.

16 “Chinese people are great people, and American people are also great people. We came all the way to the United States, not only to learn advanced science and technology, but also to promote the friendship between 1978 the Chinese and American peoples.” Fifty-two distinguished Chinese scholars arrive in Washington, D.C., in the wake of —Professor Liu Baicheng of Tsinghua the U.S. decision to normalize relations with Beijing. In this photograph, they are greeted University, a member of the delegation by Georgetown President Timothy S. Healy, to Georgetown, 1978 S.J. The group studies English at Georgetown and American University before spending time at other U.S. institutions of higher education.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 17 1979 Ambassador and former Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver leads an 18-member delegation from Georgetown’s 1978 Kennedy Institute of Ethics Chinese national men’s and women’s basketball teams play to the first U.S. academic Georgetown at the D.C. Armory. The Chinese teams win meeting with China’s National both games. Academy of Social Sciences.

18 1980 1986 Georgetown establishes Robert Pitofsky, dean of the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Chair the Georgetown Law in Chinese Studies with the Center, visits China with support of ’s National other law school deans to Chengchi University. Derek discuss opportunities for Bodde (left) becomes the cooperation and exchange. first holder of the chair. He The group visits universities began his academic career in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, as a Sinologist and was the and Xi’an. At the time, only first Fulbright scholar in five students from China 1948, during which time he attend Georgetown Law studied in Beijing and wrote Center. Today, more than an eyewitness account of the 150 Chinese students are Communist revolution. enrolled each year.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 19 1991 Founded first as China Circle, Georgetown’s Chinese Student Alliance (CSA) has developed into an organization that engages the larger Georgetown com- munity through such events 1991 as the Moon Cake Festival Georgetown Law Center begins an initiative to increase celebration. Georgetown also its focus on China and East Asia. In 1993, the Asian Law has the Chinese Student and and Policy Studies Program is created to focus the academic Scholar Association (CSSA), strengths of the Georgetown law and foreign policy faculty which specifically serves the on legal issues arising out of Asia’s growing economic power needs of undergraduate and to equip Georgetown’s graduates to practice competently and graduate students from and ethically in a global context shared with the nations of China and promotes cultural East Asia. Today, Georgetown Law Center regularly offers exchange among the about a half dozen courses related to the Chinese legal system. Georgetown community.

20 1998 President William J. Clinton (SFS‘68; pictured here meeting students in Xiahe Village, Xi’an, China) makes his first visit to China. As president, he advocates for stronger U.S.-China ties and supports China’s entry 1997 into the World Trade Organization. Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister (appointed in 2013), becomes a visiting scholar in the Walsh School of Foreign 2000 Service. In this photograph, Wang Yi Ambassador Su Ge, president of the China welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Rex Institute of International Studies (assumed Tillerson in Beijing in 2017. in June 2015), a think tank associated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry, comes to Georgetown as a visiting Fulbright Fellowship Senior Scholar.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 21 Since the beginning of Georgetown the twenty-first century, and China Georgetown has expanded 2004 its ties to China along Georgetown Law Center at the Opening inaugurates the Eric E. multiple dimensions. Hotung International Law of the Twenty- Activities range from Building with a generous study abroad opportunities donation from Hong Kong first Century philanthropist Sir Eric for undergraduates, to Hotung (C’51). The building joint research programs includes a library as well as for faculty, to executive state-of-the-art classrooms and lecture halls, and a moot leadership programs for court room modeled on the Chinese civil servants. U.S. Supreme Court.

22 2005 2006 Georgetown President John J. DeGioia makes President DeGioia visits Peking and his first visit to China. He signs a 10-year Renmin Universities in Beijing and Guangxi memorandum of understanding on academic University in Nanning. He signs an agreement exchange and cooperation with Tsinghua Uni- with the China Scholarship Council to jointly versity. In this photograph, he is with George- sponsor young scholars from Chinese town alumni in Beijing. institutions as post-doctoral fellows.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 23 2006 In May, Georgetown and China’s Central Party School agree to a long-term program of academic exchange with semi-annual conferences.

2007 Georgetown opens a liaison office on the campus 2008 of Fudan University in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Shanghai to facilitate faculty Affairs establishes a dialogue with China’s State Administration and student exchange with for Religious Affairs. The Berkley Center also hosts young Chinese institutions. scholars of religion in China as postdoctoral fellows.

24 2009 Georgetown President John J. DeGioia meets with China’s 2008 top education official, State Councilor Liu Yandong, first in Students from the Republic of Beijing and again in Washington, D.C. In this photograph China establish Georgetown’s are some of the 50 Georgetown students State Councilor Liu Taiwanese American Students Yandong invites in 2009 for a two-week cultural immersion Association (TASA). trip to China.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 25 Georgetown’s ties to China are growing at a rapid Georgetown pace as China has become the world’s second largest and China economy and is playing an ever-increasing role in international affairs. Georgetown’s faculty is rapidly Today expanding its collaborative research with top Chinese universities on pressing global issues. More than 700 Chinese students attend Georgetown, and there are active alumni associations in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and .

26 2011 Georgetown establishes its Weibo page, one of the first universities in the United States to do so. 2011 Georgetown University announces the establishment 2011 of the master of arts degree The Georgetown men’s in Asian studies. Housed basketball team meets with at the U.S. Department of Vice President Joseph Biden Education-funded National and Georgetown President Resource Center for East DeGioia in Shanghai during Asia, the new M.A. degree travel to China to play combines functional training exhibition games. and regional expertise.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 27 2012 Georgetown President DeGioia joins Mayor Vincent Gray on an economic development mission to China for the District of Columbia.

2011 2014 Robert Gates (G’74) is the first U.S. Former Hong Kong chief executive secretary of defense to meet with C.H. Tung establishes the Tung Foundation then-vice president Xi Jinping (above). Scholarship Program to support senior Secretary Gates wrote his doctoral thesis Chinese Foreign Ministry officials studying at Georgetown on Soviet Sinology. at Georgetown.

28 2015 2016 Georgetown President Georgetown announces a DeGioia joins a delegation $10 million donation from led by District of Columbia the Hong Kong-based Mayor Muriel Bowser on Spring Breeze Foundation an economic development to establish the Georgetown mission to China. Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues. The initiative aims to advance shared approaches between the United States and China 2015 on critical global issues, Xiaofei Wang, the first including climate change, Chinese student in the School global health, business and of Foreign Service-Qatar, trade, peace and security, is awarded the Qatar and economic and social Foundation Scholarship. development.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 29 2016 Georgetown President John J. DeGioia confers an honorary degree on Zhang Yuejiao (L’83), member of the WTO Appellate Body (2008-2016), professor of 2016 law at Shantou University The U.S.-China Initiative launches its first two research in China, arbitrator on groups on climate change and global health. The groups, China’s International Trade made up of leading U.S. and Chinese scholars, meet over and Economic Arbitration several semesters in both countries and produce joint research Commission, and vice presi- and background reports for a wider public. The initiative has dent of China’s International since launched groups on business and trade and peace and Economic Law Society. security.

30 2016 In September, Georgetown announces the selection of nine U.S. and Chinese university students as the first student fellows of 2016 the U.S.-China Initiative. In November, President John J. DeGioia leads a high-level Through in-person Georgetown delegation to East Asia. In Beijing, President meetings, online forums, DeGioia signs memoranda of understanding with Tsinghua and networking activities, University—one of China’s leading universities—and the the program provides a National Development and Reform Commission, key driver of platform for dialogue China’s long-term economic planning. among future leaders from both countries.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 31 2017 Georgetown President John J. DeGioia joins the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and 2017 participates in the In September, the second cohort of the U.S.-China Student annual meeting in Beijing Fellows gathers in Washington, D.C., for a five-day meeting. on “Ecological Civilization in Activities include a simulation on the North Korea nuclear crisis, Action: A Common Green policy briefings with government officials and scholars, and Future for the New Era.” exchanges with Georgetown faculty and students.

32 2017 Georgetown students across a range of graduate programs participate in a study tour sponsored by the China- United States Exchange Foundation. The thematic focus is China’s emerging digital economy. 2017 In November, the U.S.-China Research Group on Climate Change holds its third and final meeting at Georgetown, with a public event featuring presentations from the group members and a policy briefing at the Department of the State. Previous meetings took place in Washington, D.C., and Beijing in 2016.

GEORGETOWN AND CHINA: A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT 33 “Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service was established almost a century ago at a time when the leading powers 2018 2018 were rethinking the Zezhou Cai (G’18) is selected Georgetown and the global order. The United as a Schwarzman Scholar. China Institute of Cai is the third Georgetown International Studies States and China have a student to enter this convene a Young Leaders critical role to play in prestigious program that Forum on U.S.-China sends students from around Relations. reshaping that order the world to pursue a master’s today.” degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing. José Miguel Luna (SFS’15) and Zachary Kay —Joel Hellman, Dean, (SFS’16) were among the Walsh School of Foreign first Schwarzman cohorts. Service

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