A village boy from near Macao is taken to America by a missionary teacher, studies at Monson Academy in Massachusetts and graduates from Yale in 1854. Returning home after eight years, he struggles to find a place, buys machinery in America for Viceroy Zeng Guofan, and spends years persuading the Qing court to send Chinese boys to be educated in New England.
A remarkable first-hand account of a life lived between two civilisations in a century of upheaval. Download the free EPUB.