Abstract
After the adoption of China’s one-child policy, ensuring the success of the family’s sole offspring took on a special urgency. Earning an American degree was now a national obsession. This chapter focuses on Asia’s rising levels of academic exchange with the United States. Discussed are China’s recent initiatives, such as the cultivation of its own “Ivy League” of elite universities and its Ten Year Plan. Alongside these initiatives have emerged Sino-American university collaborations and partnerships. Also reviewed are the Chinese government’s efforts to bring language and cultural training, the latter taught from a decidedly Communist perspective, into America’s public schools and college classrooms.
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Open Doors, Annual Report (Institute of International Education, 2010).
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Tamar Lewin, “Study Abroad Flourishes, China Attracts More American Students,” The New York Times (November 18, 2008).
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Chen Jia, “China Looks to Attract More Foreign Students,” China Daily (September 28, 2010). Available at: http://english.peopledaily.com.
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Guo-hua Wang, “China’s Higher Education Reform,” China Currents. Available at: www.chinacurrents.com/spring_2010/cc_wang.htm.
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Teresa B. Bevis, A History of Higher Education Exchange: China and America (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014): 154–155.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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“Formation of China’s Ivy League Hailed,” People’s Daily Online (October 30, 2009). Available at: http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/90882/6794654.html.
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“Greetings on the Occasion of the Tsinghua University Centennial Celebration,” A Speech by Yale president Richard C. Levin in Beijing, China (April 23, 2011). Available at: http://communications.yale.edu/president/speeches/2011/o4/23/greetings-occasion-tsihghua-university-centennial-celebration.
- 10.
Michael Sainsbury, “China Establishes Group of Ivy League Universities,” The Australian (November 4, 2009). Available at: www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china.
- 11.
Tamar Lewin, “China Attracts More American Students,” The New York Times (November 18, 2008).
- 12.
Ibid.
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Dexter Roberts, “The End of China’s One-Child Policy?,” Businessweek (April 19, 2012).
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Sarah Butrimowitz, “Can China Successfully Educate Its Future Workforce?,” Time World (February 9, 2012).
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Ibid.
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“China’s New National Education Plan Aims to Build a Country with Rich Human Resources,” China’s Ministry of Education (July 30, 2010). Available at: www.moe.edu.cn.
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Ibid.
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The World Bank, “China 2030, Building a Modern, Harmonious and Creative High-Income Society” (February 2, 2012). Available at www.worldbank.org.
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Karen Fischer, “As White House Pushes Study Abroad in China, Educators Question the Logistics,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 19, 2011).
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Ibid.
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“China, U.S. to Scale Up Student Exchange Programs” (May 26, 2010). Available at: www.chinaassistor.com.
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Chen Jia.
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Daniel Golden, “The SAT Is to America as ____ Is to China Mainland. Applicants Have to Take Abroad. The U.S. College Board Wants to Change That,” Business Week (February 3, 2011). Available at: www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_07/b4215014259071.htm.
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“The Institute of International Education Leads Higher Education Delegation to Build Academic Partnership between China and the United States,” Institute of International Education (May 15, 2011).
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Ibid.
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“Seven Decades of Educating Global Leaders, Johns Hopkins University.” Available at: http://nanjing.jhu.edu/about/index.htm.
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“China’s First Sino-American University Opening in 2013,” People’s Daily (April 6, 2012). Available at: http://english.peopledaily.com.ch/203691/7779455.html.
- 30.
Ibid.
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Yojana Sharma, “CHINA: Ambitious Plans to Attract Foreign Students,” University World News, no. 162 (March 13, 2011).
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“China Needs American Education: Here’s How to Bring it There,” Forbes, June 20, 2012. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/06/20/china-needs-american-education-heres-how-tobring-it-there/#455e8ff015.
- 33.
Liz Gooch, “Chinese Universities Send Big Signals to Foreigners,” The New York Times (March 11, 2012).
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B.P. Coppola and Yi Zhou, “U.S. Education in Chinese Lockstep? Bad Move,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 5, 2012).
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Danial Golden and Oliver Stanley, “China Banning U.S. Professors Elicits Silence from Colleges,” Bloomberg (August 11, 2011). Available at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-11/china-banning-u-s-professors-elicits-silence-from-colleges.
- 39.
Ibid.
- 40.
Linda Yeung, “CHINA: Ex-premier Criticizes Higher Education Reform,” University World News (May 1, 2011). Available at: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110429170813946.
- 41.
Ibid.
- 42.
Daniel Golden, “China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities,” Bloomberg (November 1, 2011). Available at: www.bloomberg.com.
- 43.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
- 45.
Karen Fischer, “State Department Directive Could Disrupt Teaching Activities of Campus-Based Confucius Institutes,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 21, 2012).
- 46.
Karen Fischer, “State Department Hopes to ‘Fix’ Visa Problems Without Forcing Chinese Teachers to Leave,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 23, 2012).
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Matthew Robertson, “Chinese History According to the Confucius Institute,” The Epoch Times, October 1, 2015. Available at: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/chinese-history-according-to-the-confucius-institute-255366.html.
- 48.
Ibid.
- 49.
“China-US International Education Delegation Visits Ministry of Education,” Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) (November 16, 2018). Available at: http://english.hanban.org/article/2018-11/16/content_752657.htm. Accessed November 29, 2018.
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