Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World PDF
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Paradise Redefined http://avaxhome.ws/blogs/ChrisRedfield Paradise Redefined Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World Vanessa L. Fong Stanford University Press Stanford, California stanford University Press stanford, California © 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland stanford Junior University. all rights reserved. no part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of stanford University Press. Printed in the United states of america on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fong, Vanessa L., 1974– author. Paradise redefined : transnational Chinese students and the quest for flexible citizenship in the developed world / Vanessa L. Fong. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8047-7266-2 (cloth : alk. paper)— isbn 978-0-8047-7267-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Chinese students—Foreign countries. 2. Foreign study—China. 3. Transnationalism. . China— emigration and immigration. I. Title. lb2376.6.c6f66 2011 370.116—dc22 2011005567 Typeset by Classic Typography in 10/12.5 Palatino. Contents acknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 1 2. Is the Moon Rounder abroad? How Chinese Citizens see the World 40 3. Choosing the Road Less Traveled: How and Why Chinese Citizens Decide to study abroad 67 4. The Floating Life: Dilemmas of education, Work, and Marriage abroad 95 5. When Migrants from the same Hometown Meet, Tears Fill Their eyes: Freedoms Won and Lost Through Transnational Migration 142 6. The Road Home: Decisions about Returning to China or staying abroad 191 notes 223 Works Cited 241 Index 265 acknowledgments I thank nicole newendorp, nancy abelmann, sung won Kim, Qin Wenjuan, Lin shu, Fang Lue, Jee Young noh, Zhou shuyi, Fang shixin, Yang Yan, Zhang Cong, Chen Chen, Li Wei, Hu Minglie, and two anonymous reviewers at stanford University Press for carefully reading my entire manuscript and providing detailed and very help- ful suggestions. I am grateful to stacy Wagner, Carolyn Brown, and Mimi Braverman at stanford University Press for their support and advice throughout the publication process. For advice about various portions of this book and the research that went into it, I thank Kather- ine Masyn, natasha Warikoo, Rachel Murphy, erica James, Manduhai Buyandelgeriyn, sonja Plesset, James L. Watson, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Bilal Malik, natsuko Kuwahara, Chih-Ting Chang, Hilary Chart, stephanie Hsieh, Beaudry Kock, Paul Kuttner, Minkyung Lee, arzu Mistry, andres sevtsuk, Wu ning, Laura Batt, Fatou Camara, Charlene Desir, andres guerra, Meera Pathmarajah, Minnie Quach, steve song, Phitsamay sychitkokhong, Jay Wang, Maggie Yuan, Tiffany Chao, Janet Kwok, andrew Conning, Vanessa Beary, Tiffanie Ting, adrienne Keene, Brendan Randall, Russell Carlock, Rebecca Rolland, ai goto- araki, Injeong Kim, Kathleen Lynch, erin McCloskey, Karen Wiener, Ji eun Yang, anusuya Banerjee, Miriam Boatright, Chen Mulian, Cheng Wen-Ju, Feng Yi, Julianne Fylstra, Clayton Harmon, Hsu Yu-Li, Hu Xinyue, Huang Linghui, Kim Kyojin, Li Lushi, Lu Ruyi, Magari noriko, Janhvi Maheshwari, Christin Park, Qin Weijia, natalie Roote, James simpson, song ge, Tan Ying, Magdalena Wierzbicka, Zhang Dan, Kijoo Cha, Hsun-Yu Chan, Manlai Cheng, Yookyung Choi, He Ji, viii Acknowledgments Huyan Qianqian, Jun eun Jeong, stephanie Kimura, Kwan Hoi Yum, Liu Jing, Liu Xiyun, Min sook-Weon, Yukiko Koga, and amanda Wallace. I am grateful for the questions and comments I received from audi- ence members when I presented portions of this book at Harvard Univer- sity, oxford University, Cambridge University, the University of Michi- gan at ann arbor, amherst College, Brown University, georgetown University, new York University, the University of California at Los angeles, Davidson College, Yale University, the London school of eco- nomics, and the University of nevada at Las Vegas, and at meetings of the american anthropological association, the american educational Research association, the association for asian studies, the society for Medical anthropology, and the society for Psychological anthropology. I am most deeply indebted to the people in my study, some of whom have shared their lives with me for over a decade. I thank the staff and administrators at the Harvard graduate school of educa- tion, especially my assistant, anne Blevins, for helping me with tech- nical, administrative, and research issues, my research assistants in China and the United states for helping me with data entry and col- lection, my colleagues and students at the Harvard graduate school of education for giving me advice and suggestions that have helped improve this book, my mentors and friends in the Harvard anthro- pology Department and at amherst College for helping to shape the way I think about the issues in this book, and my friends and family for their support through the process of research and writing. The research for the longitudinal project that resulted in this book was funded by a Beinecke Brothers Memorial Fellowship, an andrew W. Mellon grant, a national science Foundation Fel- lowship, a grant from the Weatherhead Center at Harvard Univer- sity, a postdoctoral fellowship at the Population studies Center of the University of Michigan at ann arbor, an andrew W. Mellon Foundation Demography Fund Research grant, a grant from the Wenner-gren Foundation for anthropological Research, a national academy of education/spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow- ship, a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for Research in arts, social sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University, a grant from the Harvard University China Fund, grants from the Harvard Uni- versity asia Center, a grant from the Harvard University William F. Milton Fund, and a national science Foundation CaReeR award. Paradise Redefined
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