Pursuit of the Chinese Dream in America - Chinese Undergraduate Students At American Universities

The Pursuit of the Chinese Dream in America examines the hopes, expectations, challenges, and aspirations of the current generation of Chinese students as they pursue higher education at American universities. Based on interviews with Chinese students, parents, teachers, and educational agents in Shanghai, this ethnographic study analyzes the cultural, economic, and social factors that have fostered the increase of Chinese undergraduates on American campuses.

List of contents

Chapter1: Reaching for the Chinese Dream
Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework
Chapter 3: Cheeseheads, Colleges, and Chinese Parents
Chapter 4: Chinese Forms of Capital
Chapter 5: Mianzi, Motivations, and Higher Education

About the author

By Dennis T. Yang

Product details

• Authors: Dennis T Yang, Dennis T. Yang, Dennis Tao Yang
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498521703
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2170-3
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; USA, China, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, United States of America, USA, universities, Higher education, tertiary education, Multicultural education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Asian Studies;Higher Education;Multicultural Education