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.DChina 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