Paradise redefined : transnational Chinese students and the quest for flexible citizenship in the developed world / Vanessa L. Fong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fong, Vanessa L., 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese students--Foreign countries.

Chinese students.

Foreign study--China.

Foreign study.

Transnationalism.

China--Emigration and immigration.

China.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

viii, 267 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Fong (education, Harvard Graduate School of Education) offers what could be considered a follow up to her earlier ethnographic study of the social, economic, and psychological makeup of children born since China's one-child policy took effect in 1979. In this book, she reconnects with many of the children from her previous study. The result offers considerable insight into Chinese globalization from the perspective of her examination of the expectations and experiences that determined how many Chinese students made decisions about studying abroad, remaining abroad, immigration, and returning to China. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Is the moon rounder abroad? : how Chinese citizens see the world

Choosing the road less traveled : how and why Chinese citizens decide to study abroad

The floating life : dilemmas of education, work, and marriage abroad

When migrants from the same hometown meet, tears fill their eyes : freedoms won and lost through transnational migration

The road home : decisions about returning to China or staying abroad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804772662

0804772665

9780804772679

0804772673

OCLC:

706464482