| Bridging Minds Across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003 Contributor(s): Li, Cheng (Editor), Bullock, Mary Brown (Contribution by), Hayhoe, Ruth (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739109952 ISBN-13: 9780739109953 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $53.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Aims & Objectives - History | Asia - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 370.116 |
| LCCN: 2004027842 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.93 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
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| Publisher Description: 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. Deng Xiaoping's milestone decision in 1978 to send a large number of Chinese nationals to study in the United States has fostered increased cross-Pacific dialogue among academics. In recent years a tidal wave of 'returnees' who studied abroad have moved back to China. Cheng Li and this volume's distinguished contributors examine how these individuals are working to shape their home country, especially in social science curriculum development, program-building, and research, and in public policy formation. This book explores whether sweeping educational exchanges between these two profoundly different countries have promoted productive mutual understanding. |