University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

UIUC Grad Students and Their Reasoning to Return or Not to China

Kim, Sarah

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Title
UIUC Grad Students and Their Reasoning to Return or Not to China
Author(s)
Kim, Sarah
Contributor(s)
  • Villagrana, Sasha
  • Romero, Jason C.
  • Chae, Seun Ju
Issue Date
2008
Keyword(s)
  • patriotism
  • entrepreneur
  • ANTH499 S08
  • professionalism
  • Chinese graduate student
Abstract
Our group wanted to find out reason why there has been a growing trend of Chinese students returning to China rather than staying. We focused on the Science & Technology departments as they chose this school more specifically for the Engineering program. We used interviews and found that there was a trend for the males to have a patriotic sense (whether or not they did return to China). Some wanted to contribute to China or even the world through their findings or after they have established themselves. Some explained that they did not care too much about patriotism, but their friends and family. Almost all the subjects had a strong relationship and sense of responsibility in supporting their parents, so that affected their decision as well. Others had decided to study abroad just for the opportunities that would be opened to them in China for a job or purpose what they want to do.
Series/Report Name or Number
Anth 499, East Asian Youth and Global Futures, Prof. Nancy Abelmann and Prof. Karen Kelsky: East Asian youth have experienced perhaps the world’s most compressed development as well as the world’s most aggressive globalization policies. This course examines how youth in East Asia (China/s, Japan, and the Koreas) are making their way in our globalizing world, focusing in particular on the transformations in work, education, recreation, gender, and sexuality brought about by neoliberal economic restructuring in the region. Topics studied include the insecure job market for young people, consumerism, globalized pop culture phenomena such as Pokemon, the Korean wave, and Internet gaming, emergent LGBT communities, etc. Students are encouraged to focus their research projects on aspects of the U. of I. student life that reflect the experiences of East Asian youth in a global market. The U of I offers a fascinating window on East Asian youth because of the many college (and pre-college) students who make their way here – as well as the movement of “Amercian” youth to East Asia. Through participation in the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), students will conduct local field research that reveals the global processes at issue. The course syllabus is available at: www.eui.uiuc.edu/docs/syllabi/ANTH499S08.doc
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