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{{Chinese|first=t|t=庚子賠款獎學金|s=庚子赔款奖学金|p=Gēngzǐ Péikuǎn Jiǎngxuéjīn|w=Keng-tzu P'ei-k'uan Chiang-hsüeh-chin}}
[[File:US Congress May 21 1908 Joint Resolution (S. R. 23) remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity.png|thumb|'''US Congress Joint Resolution (S. R. 23) 1908 remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity''']]
The '''Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program''' ({{zh|first=t|t=庚子賠款獎學金|c=|s=|p=|l=[Year] [[sexagenary cycle|Gengzi]] Indemnity Scholarship}}) was a scholarship program for Chinese students to be educated in the United States, funded by the {{ill|Boxer Indemnity|zh|庚子赔款}}. In May 25, 1908, the U.S. Congress Senate and House of RepresenativesRepresentatives passed the Joint Resolution (S. R. 23)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1gdAQAAMAAJ |title=World Affairs |date=1960 |publisher=American Peace Society |pages=37 |language=en}}</ref> to return to China the excess of Boxer Indemnity<ref>{{Cite web |last=Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information |first=Bureau of Public Affairs |date=2007-08-10 |title=United States Relations with China: Boxer Uprising to Cold War (1900-1949) |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/90689.htm#:~:text=1908:%20Remittance%20of%20the%20Boxer,million)%20to%20the%20Chinese%20government. |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=2001-2009.state.gov |language=en}}</ref>, amounting to over $11,961,121.76<ref>{{Cite web |title=Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1925, Volume I - Office of the Historian |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1925v01/d778 |access-date=2023-09-28 |website=history.state.gov}}</ref>. Despite the fierce controversies over returning the excess payment, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s administration decided to establish the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program to educate Chinese. President Roosevelt recognized this program as a chance for "American-directed reform in China" <ref name="Ye" /> that could potentially improve US-China relations, bridging Chinese and American culture, and promoting the US's international image. Instead of copying European imperialism and using military means to reap a short-term financial gain, Roosevelt established the program to insure peace and trade in China in the "most satisfactory and subtle of all ways",<ref name="Smith" /> while helping the United States gain respect and take a leadership position in the world.
Since its inception, the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program has been called "the most important scheme for educating Chinese students in America and arguably the most consequential and successful in the entire foreign-study movement of twentieth century China."<ref name=Ye/>
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