1st Edition

Confucius and Crisis in American Universities Culture, Capital, and Diplomacy in U.S. Public Higher Education

By Amy Stambach Copyright 2014
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

China’s investment in U.S. higher education has raised considerable debate, but little research has been directed to the manner in which this investment unfolds and takes shape on the ground in local contexts. Confucius and Crisis in American Universities fills this gap by closely investigating how Chinese-funded U.S. programs are understood and configured in the modern American university.... Read more
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: History in the Light of U.S.-China Educational Exchange
Chapter 3: Language Instruction in Confucius Institutes
Chapter 4: Administrators’ Views of Confucius Institutes
Chapter 5: Campus and Community Participants
Chapter 6: Chinese Teachers in the United States
Chapter 7: Confucius Institutes: Saving Face, or Selling Out?
References
Index

Biography

Amy Stambach is Professor of Education at the University of Oxford, UK.