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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.
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Li (government and Asian studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York) presents nine of the 29 papers from a November 2003 conference held at Fudan U. in Shanghai; the conference brought together some 80 scholars from China, the U.S., Hong Kong, Canada, and Great Britain to examine the 25-year course of Sino-U.S. educational exchanges following the announcement of the Open Door Policy in 1978. Collectively the revised papers examine how previous obstacles in Sino-U.S. educational exchanges were resolved; the impacts of American influence on China's higher education, and on the transformation of China in general; the types of reorientation, adjustments, and improvements Chinese policymakers and educators need to make to build world-class universities; and emerging tensions and new challenges in Sino-U.S. educational exchanges. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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