Paradise redefined [[electronic resource] ] : transnational Chinese students and the quest for flexible citizenship in the developed world / / Vanessa L. Fong

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781633703321
• Autore: Fong Vanessa L. <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-8047-8175-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.116
• Soggetti: Chinese students - Foreign countries; Foreign study - China; Transnationalism; China Emigration and immigration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Is the moon rounder abroad? : how Chinese citizens see the world -- Choosing the road less traveled : how and why Chinese citizens decide to study abroad -- The floating life : dilemmas of education, work, and marriage abroad -- When migrants from the same hometown meet, tears fill their eyes : freedoms won and lost through transnational migration -- The road home : decisions about returning to China or staying abroad.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status was the ultimate goal, though relatively few were in a position to achieve it.In Paradise Redefined, Fong tracks the experiences of many in her initial cohort of Chinese only-children-now college-age-as they study abroad in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North A