Liel Leibovitz is host of Tablet’s daily Talmud podcast Take One and cohost of the Unorthodox podcast. Author of A Broken Hallelujah and Stan Lee and coauthor of The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, he lives in New York City. Matthew Milleris the co-author of Lili Marlene: The Soldiers’ Song of World War II. He lives in New York.
"A fascinating and well-told history of this early educational exchange between China and the United States." -- Peter Hessler, author of Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory "The struggle that the boys faced between traditionalism and modernity, exacerbated by an intriguing and sometimes turbulent clash of cultures, is something that resonates clearly to this day." -- Gavin Menzies, author of 1421: The Year China Discovered America "I read this book in one sitting, utterly engrossed in the rugged journeys undertaken by the first generation of west-going Chinese scholars. To read this book is to understand the fundamental obstacles and frustrations all Chinese intellectuals faced then and now. A bunch of pigtailed Manchurian Yalies. What a paradox!" -- Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain and Brothers
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