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Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education

English

By (author): Yingyi Ma

Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group

Winner, 2021 Best Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society Study Abroad and International Studies Special Interest Group

Honorable Mention, 2021 Pierre Bourdieu Award for the Best Book in Sociology of Education, Section on the Sociology of Education, American Sociological Association

Over the past decade, a wave of Chinese international undergraduate studentsmostly self-fundedhas swept across American higher education. From 2005 to 2015, undergraduate enrollment from China rose from under 10,000 to over 135,000. This privileged yet diverse group of young people from a changing China must navigate the complications and confusions of their formative years while bridging the two most powerful countries in the world. How do these students come to study in the United States? What does this experience mean to them? What does American higher education need to know and do in order to continue attracting these students and to provide sufficient support for them?

In Ambitious and Anxious, the sociologist Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of this new wave of Chinese students based on research in both Chinese high schools and American higher-education institutions. Ma argues that these students experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social changes in China. These students and their families have the ambition to navigate two very different educational systems and societies. Yet the intricacy and pressure of these systems generate a great deal of anxiety, from applying to colleges before arriving, to studying and socializing on campus, and to looking ahead upon graduation. Ambitious and Anxious also considers policy implications for American colleges and universities, including recruitment, student experiences, faculty support, and career services. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780231218788

About Yingyi Ma

Yingyi Ma is professor of sociology at Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where she is also director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program. She is a fellow of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

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