Bridging Minds Across the Pacific U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003

by Li, Cheng; Bullock, Mary Brown; Hayhoe, Ruth,; Li, Cheng; Mohrman, Kathryn; Postiglione, Gerard; Rosen, Stanley; Tong, Caroline Haiyan; Wang, Fei-Ling; Wang, Hongying; Zheng, Shiping; Zweig, David

• ISBN13: 9780739109946
• ISBN10: 0739109944
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

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 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 curricular development, program-building, and research, and in public policy formation.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Charts	xi
Foreword
Richard C. Levin	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
1 Introduction: Open Doors and Open Minds	1	(24)
Cheng Li
2 Sino-American Educational Interaction from the Microcosm of Fudan's Early Years	25	(24)
Ruth Hayhoe
3 Mission Accomplished: The Influence of the CSCPRC on Educational Relations with China	49	(20)
Mary Brown Bullock
4 Coming Home to Teach: Status and Mobility of Returnees in China's Higher Education	69	(42)
Cheng Li
5 Transnational Capital: Valuing Academic Returnees in a Globalizing China	111	(22)
Stanley Rosen and David Zweig
6 Sino-American Educational Exchanges and International Relations Studies in China	133	(22)
Shiping Zheng
7 Sino-American Educational Exchanges and Public Administrative Reforms in China: A Study of Norm Diffusion	155	(22)
Caroline Haiyan Tong and Hongying Wang
8 Balancing the Cross-Pacific Exchange: American Study-Abroad Programs in the PRC	177	(24)
Fei-Ling Wang
9 China's Hong Kong Bridge	201	(18)
Gerard Postiglione
10 Sino-American Educational Exchanges and the Drive to Create World-Class Universities	219	(18)
Kathryn Mohrman
Bibliography	237	(14)
Index	251	(8)
About the Contributors	259