December 19, 2008

China Entices Its Scholars to Come Home

By MARA HVISTENDAHL

U.S.-educated academics are increasingly returning to teach and spearhead special programs

As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in the 1990s, Yusheng Zheng used to get together with other Chinese scholars and dream of going home.

There were few Chinese business professors in the United States, and they formed a small, closely knit, and successful community. Still, Mr. Zheng and his friends felt their talents could be put to better use

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