清末民初留美生社会地位的嬗变

On the Change in the Social Status of the American Returned Students between the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China

留美生是近代中国留学生群体的主要组成部分,从19世纪70年代到20世纪初,他们在个人教育程度、收入水平及职业声望等方面都发生了急遽变化,从一度受人嘲弄的"囚徒"一跃而为国民景仰的社会"新贵"。留美生社会地位的嬗变,是中国社会现代化的使然,20世纪初中国社会现代化的推进、留美生的特有品质及国人对美国文化的良好感观,是留美生社会地位嬗变的历史要件。

Form 1870＇s to the early 20th century, The American returned students, as the main part of the modern Chinese students, have a great changed on their level of education, income and occupation prestige. They were no longer the ridiculed ＂prisoner＂but the enviable upstart.This change is the result of the modernization of China, the advance of Chinese modernization, the American returned students＇ unique quality and the China so- cial＇s good attitude to American culture, made this historical changed.