1st Edition

China's Brain Drain to the United States

By David Zweig, Chen Changgui Copyright 1995
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1996. Beginning in 1979, the government of the People's Republic of China, hoping to catch up with Western science and technology, decided for the first time since 1949 to send large numbers of students and scholars to the West to study. Suddenly China found itself in the same situation as many developing countries: sending their best and brightest to the United States triggered... Read more
Chapter 1 Summary of the Study; Chapter 2 Introduction; Chapter 3 Explaining the Brain Drain; Chapter 4 The Shifting Policy on Overseas Study and Its Effect on the Brain Drain; Chapter 5 Characteristics and Profiles of the Sample; Chapter 6 Background Characteristics and People's Views about Returning; Chapter 7 Why People Do Not Return; Chapter 8 Evaluating the Brain Drain: The Scale of Loss and Problems of Return; Chapter 9 Bringing Them Home: Policy or Development?;

Biography

David. Zweig, Chen Changgui