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Chinese students encounter America /Qian Ning ; Translated by T.K. Chu.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Publication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2002.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295803548
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • LC3071 .C456 2002
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The Intermittent History -- The Road to Studying Abroad -- The Shock Overseas -- Different Generations, Different Talents -- The Other Side of the Bright Moon -- Some Marriages Hold Together, Many Fall Apart -- Emotional Attachment to China -- To Return or to Stay -- Translator's Endnote: A Personal Reflection on the Power of History -- Correspondence on Remission of the Boxer Indemnity -- The Number of Students Studying Abroad, 1978-1988 -- Vacillations of Study-Abroad Policy in the 1980s -- Students in the First Dispatch, December 1978
Review: "An instant bestseller upon its publication in China, in 1996, Chinese Students Encounter America (Liuxue Meiguo) appealed to those who had studied abroad, those who dreamed of doing so, and those who wanted a glimpse of the real America. This English-language edition allows American readers to see their country through a Chinese lens."Summary: "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 University of Michigan from 1989 to 1995, Chinese Students Encounter America tells the poignant and often revealing stories of students from a variety of backgrounds."--Jacket
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The Intermittent History -- The Road to Studying Abroad -- The Shock Overseas -- Different Generations, Different Talents -- The Other Side of the Bright Moon -- Some Marriages Hold Together, Many Fall Apart -- Emotional Attachment to China -- To Return or to Stay -- Translator's Endnote: A Personal Reflection on the Power of History -- Correspondence on Remission of the Boxer Indemnity -- The Number of Students Studying Abroad, 1978-1988 -- Vacillations of Study-Abroad Policy in the 1980s -- Students in the First Dispatch, December 1978

"An instant bestseller upon its publication in China, in 1996, Chinese Students Encounter America (Liuxue Meiguo) appealed to those who had studied abroad, those who dreamed of doing so, and those who wanted a glimpse of the real America. This English-language edition allows American readers to see their country through a Chinese lens."

"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 University of Michigan from 1989 to 1995, Chinese Students Encounter America tells the poignant and often revealing stories of students from a variety of backgrounds."--Jacket

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