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A Legacy of Dialogue and Engagement A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT A LEGACY OF DIALOGUE AND ENGAGEMENT Initiative for U.S.-China 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 Hong Kong-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 Shanghai and Beijing. 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 Richard Nixon’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 Taiwan’s National other law school deans to Chengchi University.
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