A Transnational Approach to Studying the Baohuanghui: A Roundtable

Below find links to a summary as well as several of the presentations given at the Roundtable on Baohuanghui Scholarship at the May 9-11, 2009, conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies at Jinan University in Guangzhou. Participating were Jane Leung Larson, Eleanor Yuen, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Gao Weinong, Chen Xuezhang, and Zhang Yan. The roundtable was moderated by Chu Hong-yuan.

Panel summary

Introduction to the Roundtable, by Jane Leung Larson

Link to Evelyn Hu-DeHart's article, "Indispensable Enemy or Convenient Scapegoat? A Critical Examination of Sinophobia in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870s to 1930s"in Journal of Chinese Overseas 5:1, 2009, which includes material from her conference paper on the Baohuanghui in Torreón.

Paper by Gao Weinong on Baohuanghui archives at University of California Berkeley

Presentation by Chen Xuezhang of a case study of two Baohuanghui members, Xue Jinqin and Lin Duo

Paper (in Chinese) by Zhang Yan on the support by the Chinese community in Yokohama for the Baohuanghui