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Article: From studying abroad to staying abroad.
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- Chinese America: History and Perspectives
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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translated from the Chinese by Marlon K. Hom
This essay is a translated, edited, and updated version of the author's essay "Cong liuxue dao xueliu," published in Chinese in Volume II of DE Li Yu-ning, ed., Chinese Experiences Studying in America: Eighty Years of Cross Cultural Learning (New York: Outer Sky Press, 1999).
The American philosopher Ralph W. Emerson (1803-1882) once said, "All educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe." That is because, during the nineteenth century, a better education was available only in Europe. In the twentieth century, for the same reason, most Chinese sought to go to the United States for advanced studies.