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- Abstract:
- Ink and pencil on paper. John Hay holds a document that proclaims his plea for the “Integrity of China,” while a kneeling Chinese man kisses his hand. Behind them hangs a portrait of his early mentor Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation, regarded with reverential gratitude by a kneeling African American man holding the president’s hand. The parallel with “The Great Liberator” is visually explicit and deliberately ambitious. American diplomacy in China is folded into a lineage of national redemption, transforming policy into moral inheritance.
- Notes:
- Another Great American to Be Proud Of. John Hay Papers, Ms.Hay Box 22XXX, Folder 5, Brown University Library
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
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- Not in Copyright
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney),
"Another Great American to Be Proud Of"
John Hay's China Policy.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:tcxpszjr/
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John Hay's China Policy
John Hay (Class of 1858), one of Brown University’s most distinguished alumni, served as US Secretary of State from 1898 until his death in 1905. Hay’s career spanned many arenas of American public life, and his China policies—especially the Open …...