| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter 1 A History of the U.S. China Policy before the Boxer Period: 1784 to 1911 | 第11-23页 |
| 1.1 Vision of A Unique China Policy, 1784-1843 | 第11-13页 |
| 1.1.1 Exploring the Mysterious Land of the Middle Kingdom | 第11-12页 |
| 1.1.2 A "Unique" China Policy | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Non-intervention Policy between the two Opium Wars, 1844-1860 | 第13-18页 |
| 1.2.1 The Cushing Mission and Treaty of Wangxia of 1844 | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2.2 The Sino-American Treaty of Tientsin and The Convention of Peking | 第16-18页 |
| 1.3 Intervention and the "Open Door" Notes, 1861-1911 | 第18-23页 |
| 1.3.1 Tsungli Yamen and the Co-operative Policy | 第18-19页 |
| 1.3.2 The Open Door Notes | 第19-23页 |
| Chapter 2 The Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program in Retrospect | 第23-34页 |
| 2.1 Aftermath of the Boxer Uprising: The Boxer Protocol | 第23-25页 |
| 2.1.1 The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and the inception of Open Door policy | 第23-24页 |
| 2.1.2 The Indemnity Issue and the American Share | 第24-25页 |
| 2.2 Indemnity Money for Education: the US Boxer Diplomacy | 第25-29页 |
| 2.2.1 Liang Cheng and His Remission Efforts | 第26-27页 |
| 2.2.2 Educational versus Economic Uses of the Indemnity Remission | 第27-29页 |
| 2.3 The Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program in Detail: A Timeline | 第29-34页 |
| 2.3.1 The First Remission | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3.2 The Fledging Tsinghua College and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 | 第30-32页 |
| 2.3.3 The Second Remission | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 3 The Boxer Indemnity Scholarship: A Qualitative Evaluation | 第34-44页 |
| 3.1 The Game of Education | 第34-39页 |
| 3.1.1 Education as A Tool in Transforming China | 第34-36页 |
| 3.1.2 Education as the Goodwill Ambassador | 第36-37页 |
| 3.1.3 Education as A Stimulus to Trade and Commerce | 第37-39页 |
| 3.2 An interpretation of the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship | 第39-44页 |
| 3.2.1 The Scholarship in Relation to the US Open Door Policy | 第39-40页 |
| 3.2.2 The Scholarship in Relation to the US National Identity | 第40-41页 |
| 3.2.3 Reflections | 第41-44页 |
| Conclusion | 第44-46页 |
| Bibliography | 第46-48页 |
| 外交学院硕士研究生学位论文答辩委员会组成人员名单 | 第48页 |
