Rise of China-U.S. International Cooperation in Higher Education

Christopher J. Johnstone, Ph.D. (2005), University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of International Education at that university. He has written numerous articles on internationalization of education and international development education. He directs his university’s Leadership for Intercultural and International Education Program.Li Li Ji, Ph.D. (1985), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a Professor at the University of Minnesota. He is an internationally-renowned expert on the effects of exercise on health and aging. His effort and collaboration led to the creation of the China Champion Program and the American Culture Center for Sport.

"With an aim of helping higher education practitioners and administrators better perform in cooperative practice, the book draws on both theoretical and practical perspectives throughout twelve chapters. What distinguishes the book from others is its invaluable practical details provided by authors, who are not limited to higher education researchers but include practitioners. Rather than giving a comprehensive review of Chinese-American higher education cooperation, the book concentrates on drawing emergent trends and common grounds out of different cooperative programmes, and highlights important determinants for further leveraging partnerships and strengthening cooperation [...] Throughout the book, despite diverse perspectives, the chapters taken together demonstrate that both Chinese and American institutions are committed to higher education cooperation, and to the importance of mutual cultural understanding and respect in maintaining and expanding the cooperation. In the closing chapter, Johnstone urges more research on understanding cultural differences between China and the USA as a means of moving cooperation forward. Readers who are higher education administrators will gain from this book a sense of the importance of cultural consciousness for cooperative practice. Higher education researchers will be reminded of the urgent needs to explore cooperation from both Chinese and American cultural perspectives." - Lili Yang, University of Oxford, in Higher Education (2019) 78: 189–191.

• Acknowledgements vii1 The Rise of Sino-U.S. International Partnerships in HigherEducation: An Introduction 1Christopher J. Johnstone2 China’s Soft Power Projection through Higher Education:An Preliminary Assessment 3Rui Yang3 Dynamics of Internationalization in U.S. and Chinese HigherEducation 23Katherine Punteney and Yilin Wei4 Leveraging Confucius Institutes for International Educationand Exchange 61Anthony C. Ogden and Huajing Xiu Maske5 Developing a Multi-Institutional, Internationally-Focused HigherEducation Research Partnership 87Deane Neubauer and Joanne Taira6 Internationalization 2.0 and Counting: Learnings from China-U.S.Collaborations in Business Education 102Anne M. D’Angelo and Lili Dong7 The New Normal: Student and Faculty Mobility Programs betweenPublic Teacher Education Institutions in China and the U.S. 122Mary Schlarb, Shufang Strause and Lu-Chung Dennis Weng8 An Exploratory Journey of NYU Shanghai: Reflections from aUniversity Chancellor 143Yu Lizhong9 China Champion Program 163Chi Jian and Li Li Ji10 Sino-Global Higher Education Partnerships: Student MobilityPrograms 182Jing Tian, Jiansheng Ma and Juan Cai11 The Effect of Culture and Acculturation on the Mental Healthon International Students: Implications for U.S. and ChineseUniversities 197Merritt Huang12 Conclusions and Way Forward 221Christopher J. Johnstone