Chinese students encounter America / Qian Ning ; translated by T.K. Chu.
"Since China reopened to the West in the late 1970s, several hundred thousand Chinese students and scholars have traveled abroad for advanced education, primarily to the United States. Based on interviews conducted while the author studied journalism and taught Chinese literature at the Univers...
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| Other title: | Liu xue Meiguo. English. |
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| Language: | English Chinese |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 The Intermittent History 3
- 2 The Road to Studying Abroad 27
- 3 The Shock Overseas 63
- 4 Different Generations, Different Talents 95
- 5 The Other Side of the Bright Moon 117
- 6 Some Marriages Hold Together, Many Fall Apart 141
- 7 Emotional Attachment to China 165
- 8 To Return or to Stay 193
- Translator's Endnote: A Personal Reflection on the Power of History 213
- 1 Correspondence on Remission of the Boxer Indemnity 219
- 2 The Number of Students Studying Abroad, 1978-1988 225
- 3 Vacillations of Study-Abroad Policy in the 1980s 227
- 4 Students in the First Dispatch, December 1978 235.