Walter G. Whitman: Ethnocentric Views in China

This exhibit will focus on the travels of Walter George Whitman, a Massachusetts native known for his teaching career, as well as his career as an author. This exhibit examines how Whitman's year long stay in China and his subsequent writings about trip reflect a rather ethnocentric view point of the Chinese culture. The exhibit also considers his views as compared to other American perceptions at this time and the possible reasons behind them.