Authors: Cheng Li (Editor), Cheng Li
ISBN-13: 9780739109946, ISBN-10: 0739109944
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Foreword | ||
1 | Introduction : open doors and open minds | 1 |
2 | Sino-American educational interaction from the microcosm of Fudan's early years | 25 |
3 | Mission accomplished : the influence of the CSCPRC on educational relations with China | 49 |
4 | Coming home to teach : status and mobility of returnees in China's higher education | 69 |
5 | Transnational capital : valuing academic returnees in a globalizing China | 111 |
6 | Sino-American educational exchanges and international relations studies in China | 133 |
7 | Sino-American educational exchanges and public administrative reforms in China : a study of norm diffusion | 155 |
8 | Balancing the cross-Pacific exchange : American study-abroad programs in the PRC | 177 |
9 | China's Hong Kong Bridge | 201 |
10 | Sino-American educational exchanges and the drive to create world-class universities | 219 |