China Surges Past India as Top Home of Foreign Students
The annual report of the Institute of International Education found that students from China have surpassed those from India in U.S. colleges and universities, in a clear indication of the rising...
View ArticleChina: Please Study Abroad.
Last Friday, the Beijing education committee summoned representatives from Beijing’s 10 leading public high schools to discuss study abroad students. Please read the article in The Diplomat here:...
View ArticleRecruiting in China Pays Off for U.S. Colleges
The New York Times reports on the surge in applicants from China to U.S. colleges, which have actively recruited in the country: Consider, for example, that half of Grinnell’s applicants from China...
View ArticleHow American Colleges Can Better Serve Chinese Applicants
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the very flawed process by which Chinese students apply to and get accepted at American universities, and offers suggestions for how the system...
View ArticleTwo-Way Street: Breaking Bad College Recruiting Habits in China
Following up a September inquiry into the disconnect between Chinese students and American universities, The Chronicle of Higher Education investigates the agency system which helps Chinese students...
View ArticleSurvey: Chinese Applicants to U.S. Colleges Need English Lessons, Not...
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports in its “China Conundrum” series that many prospective Chinese applicants to U.S. colleges can afford to pay full tuition but lack the necessary...
View ArticleChinese Atheists Lured to U.S. Christian Schools
Some American Christians are capitalizing on the desire and ability of many wealthy Chinese families to send their children abroad to study. Bloomberg reports on the increasing numbers of Chinese...
View ArticleChinese Graduate Student Killed in Boston Attack
The third fatality from the bombing at the Boston Marathon has been identified as a Chinese graduate student at Boston University. According to reports, the victim was a graduate of Beijing Institute...
View ArticleInfo Emerges on Boston Bomb Victim Lü Lingzi
More information has emerged regarding the Chinese national and Boston University graduate student who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday and mourned widely by her compatriots on...
View ArticleCarjack Victim Recounts Ordeal in Boston
The April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon hit the community of Chinese living in the U.S. especially hard. Of the three fatalities, one was Boston University graduate student Lü Lingzi from Shenyang....
View ArticleCrunchtime for China’s High School Seniors
As bilateral talks between U.S President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to take place at Sunnylands, California on Friday, millions of high school seniors in China will sit...
View ArticleGaokao Quitters Multiply as ‘Sea Turtles’ Flounder
Amid bleak job prospects for many of China’s fresh college graduates, The Economist reports that even an education abroad is no longer the golden ticket it once was: […] Several studies show that sea...
View ArticleNetizens Scoff at Boston Bombing Victim Payout
The South China Morning Post reports that the family of the Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon bombing will receive US$2.2 million as part of the approximately US$64 million in compensation...
View ArticleThird Chinese Student Dies from Asiana Crash (Updated)
A Chinese teenager has died from wounds sustained in the crash of Asian Airlines flight at San Francisco International Airport last Saturday. She is the third fatality from the flight; all three of...
View ArticleChinese Students Flock To US, But Not For Long
The New York Times reports that more than 100,000 Chinese students seeking an academic edge spent the summer in the United States, a trend which has made poorer families “jealous”: But concerns about...
View ArticleJourney of the ‘Sea Turtles’
At Tea Leaf Nation, Rachel Lu looks at the factors that play into the difficult decisions that US-educated Chinese face in choosing whether to return to China for its economic opportunities or stay in...
View ArticleRow Over Taiwan Status at Harvard Model U.N.
Following reports on the patriotism of Chinese students overseas and the often overlooked complexity of nationalist sentiment among young Chinese in general, J. Michael Cole describes a heated dispute...
View ArticleWhat Did China’s First Daughter Find in America?
Following his in-depth profile of Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week, The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos writes on the possible effects of Xi’s daughter’s formative years spent at Harvard. At twenty-two, Xi...
View ArticleMinitrue: Delete Global Times Commentary on June 4th Letter [Updated]
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body has been omitted to protect the source. All...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Tiananmen Reaches a Younger Generation
On the 26th anniversary of the military crackdown on protesters in Beijing and elsewhere in China, the government is carrying out the routine round-ups of activists who might try to commemorate the...
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