There are two dominant narratives which feature in discussions of the foreign presence in China in the Republican period: one is the foreign impact thesis, the other is the foreign imperialism thesis. This volume moves beyond these tropes to a revisionist take on the Sino-foreign interactions that uncovers a series of heterotopias and interactions which are much more complicated than one-way transmission or exploitation. This book breaks new ground in giving voice to the perspectives of some of those who have been relatively neglected in the traditional narratives of foreigners’ role in Republican China. The other Others the book explores ranges from Soviet comrades to English teachers; women activists, a woman journalist, and a Contessa; Western aesthetes and sexual tourists; as well as Japanese, Koreans, New Zealanders, and Italians. It explores how the many foreign communities influenced literature, education, trade, and architecture in China and were themselves influenced and benefited from what they found there. Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China brings together the work of a diverse group of leading, as well as some emerging, scholars on Republican China. It adopts a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach to the study of foreigners in China, and also uniquely, utilises the perspectives of historiography, literary studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and political science throughout the volume.