The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China

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The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China

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Mary Brown Bullock. The oil prince's legacy: Rockefeller philanthropy in China

The Oil Prince's Legacy traces Rockefeller philanthropy in China from the nineteenth century to today. Family diaries, letters, interviews in China, and institutional archival records are used to tell a compelling story about successive Rockefeller generations and U.S.-China cultural relations. This book describes how Rockefeller philanthropy came to focus on elite science and medicine and ensured their ongoing importance in the American-Chinese relationship. That importance is still seen today in the ties of the two countries in natural and social sciences, the humanities, economics, and higher education. The Rockefeller family's involvement with China continues in the fourth and fifth generations, even as Rockefeller philanthropy is reshaped in response to China's rise as a global power. Understanding the origin, evolution, Cold War interregnum, and post-Mao renewal of Rockefeller philanthropy brings new clarity to the nature and tenacity of this ongoing bilateral relationship.-- Stanford University Press

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9780804776882

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2011

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press

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Washington, D.C

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Rockefeller Foundation, medicine, China, philanthropy

The Oil Prince's Legacy: Rockefeller Philanthropy in China

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