Overseas Chinese Students and the Spread of Chinese Culture Abroad: Focusing on the First Half of 20th Century

In the cross-cultural communication between China and the West in the first half of the 20 th century,Overseas Chinese students,by virtue of their deep accomplishment in both Chinese and Western learning as well as cultural consciousness,actually took the role of the government in transmitting Chinese culture.They translated Chinese works into foreign languages,created works about Chinese literature and culture in foreign languages,conducted academic researches on Chinese issues in foreign languages,provided assistance to Western sinological circles with Chinese language and Chinese resources and showed the spiritual outlook of Chinese people by interpersonal communication and social activities. The overseas Chinese students thus became the significant medium in spreading Chinese learning to the West. The emergence of this cultural phenomenon was not only the outcome of development of Chinese education for studying abroad,but also closely related to the cultural background that the west-centrism was widely questioned but Chinese culture was popular again after the two world wars.