Bridging Minds Across the Pacific U.S.-China

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.

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

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

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