More Than Tuition Money: The ‘Asia Orienting’ of the University of Michigan’s Levi Barbour

Since 1917, the University of Michigan has supported the Levi Barbour Scholarship for Women from the Orient, a program that, on the surface, seems like one among many scholarships provided by a university, but the early years of the Levi Barbour program encapsulated larger themes that implicated such momentous historical formations as political revolutions in Asian settings, immigration restriction in the United States, as well as the emergence of the “Modern Woman” in the early 20th century.