International Educator, November 1st, 2006
WHAT A MONUMENTAL DECISION IT MUST HAVE BEEN for a young person raised in the strict Confucian traditions of nineteenth century Imperial China, to seek an education in the West. Those first few to make that decision were pioneers in the truest sense of the word, electing to traverse oceans and continents at a time when transportation systems, where they existed at all, were tedious, time-consuming, or even treacherous-to pursue a degree in a strange land where, upon arrival, they would find no foreign student support systems whatsoever. The legacy of these trailblazers and the situations that ...
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