The meaning of neoliberal education for Chinese graduate students at UIUC

摘要

Our group project was initiated by the question why many Chinese graduate students show tendencies of returning to China more compared to the past. For our resources we interviewed twelve Chinese graduate students in engineering and science departments. We focused our analysis on ten of the twelve interviews, which were conducted with male students, after we found out male students tended to have more firm opinions on the subject issue we were dealing with. In the course of our research, we found out that family, improving economy of China, and nationalism played as important factors for their decisions to return.