{"id":16872,"date":"2025-12-03T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=16872"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:47:10","slug":"john-hays-china-policy-student-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/john-hays-china-policy-student-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hay\u2019s China Policy: Student Research from Brown\u2019s Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/12\/Missed-It-Edgreu-rotated-1-1024x938.jpg\" alt=\"caricature of Russian Tsar and the John Hay fighting to grab China has drawn on a globe\" class=\"wp-image-16875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/12\/Missed-It-Edgreu-rotated-1-1024x938.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/12\/Missed-It-Edgreu-rotated-1-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/12\/Missed-It-Edgreu-rotated-1.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>&#8220;Missed It&#8221;: Caricature of Russian trying to grab &#8220;Neutral China,&#8221; but John Hay has already gotten ahold of it. BY R. EDGREU; FROM THE JOHN HAY COLLECTION<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Join the Brown University Library for a presentation of original research by Brown students exploring the global impact of John Hay\u2019s China Policy \u2014 and Brown University\u2019s role in this history \u2014 drawing on rare special collections materials from Brown and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hybrid Event<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, December 10, 2025, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In person:<\/strong> Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Online:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/brown.zoom.us\/j\/98923019954?jst=2\">https:\/\/brown.zoom.us\/j\/98923019954?jst=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Qing\u2019s Embattled Navy&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Adam Reiffen <\/strong>(Military Fellow, Watson School)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presenters<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jason Mao &#8217;28<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;John Hay Behind the Policy: Lincoln, Boxer, and the Remission&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Brooke Cohen &#8217;26<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The Minister\u2019s Wife and the Empress Dowager: A Friendship that Humanized China in U.S. Policy-making&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hank Zhou &#8217;27<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;Personal Diplomacy and Structural Constraints: Wu Tingfang, John Hay, and the Limits of Sino-American Relations, 1900-1902&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Break<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Morgan Glazier&#8217; 26 <\/strong>&#8211; Title TBD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Renee Kuo &#8217;27 <\/strong>&#8211; &#8220;The &#8220;Land of Opportunity\u201d: From John Hay&#8217;s Open Door to Brown-in-China&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Emma Brignall &#8217;27<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;New Leaders of the Young Republic: American Education in the Making of Modern China&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by Brown University Library, Brown 2026, China Initiative, and Cogut Collaborative Humanities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the Brown University Library for a presentation of original research by Brown students exploring the global impact of John Hay\u2019s China Policy \u2014 and Brown University\u2019s role in this history \u2014 drawing on rare special collections materials from Brown and beyond. Hybrid Event Wednesday, December 10, 2025, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. In person: <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/john-hays-china-policy-student-presentations\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  John Hay\u2019s China Policy: Student Research from Brown\u2019s Special Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35,8,155,20,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16880,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16872\/revisions\/16880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}