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A Relationship Restored Trends in U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-1984 (1986) / Chapter Skim
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1 The Sino-American Academic Relationship: Images and Interests
Pages 9-14

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From page 9...
... Various politically potent segments of our society see different opportunities and challenges in China. At least three general images of China are currently held in the United States, and each has its own implications for academic exchange.
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From page 10...
... In addition, there are many "self-paying" PRC students coming to the United States who are outside this detailed plan. The importance China's elite places on the program to send students and scholars abroad is clearly evident in the following account of the 1984 National Conference on Sending Students Abroad to Study:
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From page 11...
... Although the United States has already benefited from the academic exchange relationship by acquiring previously unavailable scientific data, greater knowledge of Chinese society, and high-quality foreign students on American campuses, the relationship should not, and probably cannot, be justified purely by short-term effects. In the face of an unpredictable future, what long-term national interests should guide American academic ties with China?
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From page 12...
... Present American investments in Chinese professional training and scientific instrumentation are laying the foundation for meaningful, future joint research and cooperation. The short-term interests of the United States should not yield entirely to long-term considerations.
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From page 13...
... American universities and colleges moved quickly to treat PRC students and scholars like other foreign students and scholars in the United States, and the PRC students and scholars adapted swiftly to the American system in terms of providing admissions offices with improved academic documentation, competing successfully for available financial resources, and performing well academically. Finally, the rapid growth in the number of PRC students and scholars on American campuses, the comparatively few Americans who are qualified and motivated to spend long periods of study and research in China, and the PRC's status as a developing country all vitiate the concept of strict numerical reciprocity in the two nations' academic relationship.
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... As a Chinese student in Zhejiang Province recently put it, "We must search for the 'middle way' between rejecting foreign experience and attaching too much importance to it." NOTE 1. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Nov.
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