Cheng Li is William R. Kenan Professor of Government and Chair of Asian Studies at Hamilton College.

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

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Open Doors and Open Minds Chapter 3 Sino-American Educational Interaction from the Microcosm of Fudan's Early Years Chapter 4 Mission Accomplished: The Influence of the CSCPRC on Educational Relations with China Chapter 5 Coming Home to Teach: The Status and Mobility of Returnees in China's Higher Education Chapter 6 Transnational Capital: Valuing Academic Returnees in a Globalizing China Chapter 7 Sino-American Educational Exchange and International Relations Studies in China Chapter 8 Sino-American Educational Exchanges and Public Administrative Reforms in China: A Study of Norm Diffusion Chapter 9 Balancing the Cross-Pacific Exchange: American Study-Abroad Programs in the PRC Chapter 10 China's Hong Kong Bridge Chapter 11 Sino-American Educational Exchanges and the Drive to Create World-Class Universities