留学生是中国“最大出口商品”

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VOA Chinese, Mar 26, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110326-largest-export-china-118702859.html

Note: The report in order cites
(a) Kara Spak, China’s new crop of exports — students. Chicago Sun Times, Mar 26, 2011. http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/4266771-418/chinas-new-crop-of-------exports--students.html

Quote:

"China has been the top exporter of students to the U.S. twice before — in the late 1980s and the late 1990s. Then, China sent mostly graduate students studying science and technology. Now, Chinese students increasingly are coming to study as undergraduates.

"The Downstate [UIUC] campus ranks third nationally for the number of foreign students attending, and is the top public university in terms of the number of foreign students in the United States, according to the Open Doors report.

"Keira Huang, 22, a senior at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign who transferred from a Chinese university after her sophomore year, credited her American boyfriend with introducing her into a social circle of American students. That’s not the experience of many Chinese students, she said. 'They definitely stick with each other,' she said.


My comment:
(i) Voice of America is up-to-the-minute.
(ii) Chicago Sun-Times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times
(began in 1844 as the Chicago Evening Journal (which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine O'Leary was responsible for the Chicago fire); The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun and the Chicago Daily Times)
(iii) Governors State University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_State_University
(located in University Park, Illinois--30 miles south of Chicago; Founded in 1969, GSU is an upper-division university, offering undergraduate courses at the junior and senior levels as well as graduate level coursework at the masters and doctoral level)

(b) Chris Welch, China-sponsored language programs in U.S. raise concerns, hopes. CNN, Jan 19, 2011.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/19/china.funds.language.programs/index.html?iref=allsearch

My comment:
(i) After introducing the Chinese teacher "Chiwei Lin," the report subsequently referred to her as "Chiwei." In US reports tend to use last name rather than first name in later mentions. I suspect the reporter is consfused about which was the last name (surname) and which was the first (given) name in Chiwei Lin, especially Chinese from PRC (but not Taiwanese) most often put their surname first--followed by given name.
(ii) Two companion CNN reports that are not mentioned by the above VOA report:
* Joe Vaccarello, Chinese student loving life in U.S. college. CNN, Jan 19, 2011.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/19/us.chinese.student/index.html

* Stan Grant, Immersion in China 101: An American teen's story. CNN, Jan 19, 2011.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/china.us.student/index.html


(c) Lucia Pierce, For Chinese Students in America, It's Hard to Make Friends. The Atlantic, Mar 6, 2011 (blog).
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/for-chinese-students-in-america-its-hard-to-make-friends/72075/

* At the top of this blog, select "click here" (under the gaze of James Fallows) will lead to
James Fallow, Welcome Our Guest Blog Teams -- the Master List.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/welcome-our-guest-blog-teams-the-master-list/70030/

Heading: "Here is the background on the sixth week's team: Brown, Cham, D. Fallows, Minter, and Pierce:

"Lucia Pierce, originally from Ohio and now also based in Shanghai, has worked for years on the connection between American and Chinese educational systems. For years she directed the influential Chinese-language program at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, and she has also been head of the education programs at the Freer and Sackler museums of the Smithsonian system. She has run an international high school in Shanghai and now she counsels Chinese families whose children are aiming for high-end American universities. College admission practices, Western-vs-Chinese approaches to mothering, "kids today" -- she's on top of all of these topics.

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