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



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Autore: Fong Vanessa L. <1974-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Paradise redefined : transnational Chinese students and the quest for flexible citizenship in the developed world / / Vanessa L. Fong Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina: 370.116
Soggetto topico: Chinese students - Foreign countries
Foreign study - China
Transnationalism
Soggetto geografico: China Emigration and immigration
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
Titolo autorizzato: Paradise redefined  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-8175-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811011603321
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