Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003
Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S.-China relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges between these two countries. Deng Xiaoping's milestone decision in 1978 to send a large number of Chinese nationals to study in the United States has fostered increased cross-Pacific dialogue among academics. In recent years a tidal wave of "returnees" who studied abroad have moved back to China. Cheng Li and this volume's distinguished contributors...
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Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S.DChina relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges between these two countries in the last twenty-five years. Cheng Li and this volume's distinguished contributors focus on the important role played by U.S.-educated Chinese returnees in their home country's social science curriculum development, program-building, and research, and in public policy formation.
Foreword1Introduction : open doors and open minds12Sino-American educational interaction from the microcosm of Fudan's early years253Mission accomplished : the influence of the CSCPRC on educational relations with China494Coming home to teach : status and mobility of returnees in China's higher education695Transnational capital : valuing academic returnees in a globalizing China1116Sino-American educational exchanges and international relations studies in China1337Sino-American educational exchanges and public administrative reforms in China : a study of norm diffusion1558Balancing the cross-Pacific exchange : American study-abroad programs in the PRC1779China's Hong Kong Bridge20110Sino-American educational exchanges and the drive to create world-class universities219
