China's Brain Drain To The United States: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars in the 1990s

CHINA'S BRAIN DRAIN TO THE UNITED STATES: Views of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars in the 1990s. By David Zweig and Chan Changgui. Berkeley (California): Institute of East Asian Studies, China Research Monograph 47 (University of California). 1995. vii 133 pp. (Tables, figures.) US$13.50, paper ISBN 1-55729-049-0.

THERE HAS already been considerable literature on the relationship between China and the United States in terms of education and scholarship, including David Lampton's A Relationship Restored (1986) and Leo Orleans, Chinese Students in America: Policies, Issues and Numbers ( 1988) . This study adds a valuable chapter to this tradition of well-documented and thoughtfully researched studies, with several significant new features. It goes beyond numbers, trends, emphases that can be identified from consular files, the press and the research literature, to an understanding of the subjective experience of the major actors in this drama - the Chinese students and scholars themselves. Furthermore, it is a product of fully collaborative research between a North American scholar and a scholar of higher education from the Chinese mainland.

The book presents the results of an...