Announcement of Book Project to Update Worden Dissertation on Kang and the Baohuanghui in North America

With Robert L. Worden's enthusiastic endorsement, Jane Leung Larson of Baohuanghui Scholarship has brought together a group of scholars from the U.S., Canada, and China to update and publish Worden's groundbreaking 1972 Georgetown University dissertation on Kang's travels in North America and the Baohuanghui, “A Chinese Reformer in Exile:  The North American Phase of the Travels of K’ang Yu-wei, 1899-1909.”  We believe our book will further illuminate Kang's travels and organizational activities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and explore new interpretations of Kang and the Baohuanghui by Western and Chinese scholars.

Joining Larson and Worden in this book project will be:  Zhongping Chen, University of Victoria; Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University; and Chen Xuezhang, independent scholar, Guangzhou, China.

We are also proud to announce that members of our team will be presenting panels at both the Association of Asian Studies annual conference in Toronto, March 15-18 and the  International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies in Vancouver, BC, May 16-19.

The AAS panel, A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Baohuanghui as Transnational Chinese History, is described here:  A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Baohuanghui as Transnational Chinese History..  Our discussant will be John Fitzgerald, Ford Foundation Representative in Beijing.