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Bridging Minds Across The Pacific »

Authors: Cheng Li, Cheng Li
ISBN-13: 9780739109953, ISBN-10: 0739109952
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lexington Books
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Cheng Li

Book Synopsis

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