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Since China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, the trend for Chinese students to study overseas has become more and more popular. According to the latest report from the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (2018), the annual total of Chinese students going abroad to study hit a record high of 608,400 in 2017.

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    Xing Xu

  2. School of Education, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

    Helena Hing Wa Sit

  3. School of Education, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

    Shen Chen

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Xu, X., Sit, H.H.W., Chen, S. (2020). Introduction. In: The Eastern Train on the Western Track. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4265-7_1

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