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Since the late 1970s, the government of the People’s Republic of China aggressively promoted modernization through international scholarly and technological exchanges. This policy directly increased the U.S.-China educational exchange (Lampton et al., 1986). After the two countries agreed to exchange students and scholars in 1978, the number of students coming to the U.S. soared.
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Yan, K., Berliner, D.C. (2016). The Unique Features of Chinese International Students in the United States. In: Guo, S., Guo, Y. (eds) Spotlight on China. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-669-9_8
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