ABSTRACT
The rhetoric of educational exchange suggests that mobility to and from China is beneficial and desirable, particularly for those who work in the business or technology transfer sectors or who pay international student fees to study at US universities. Mengzhen Xu, a Confucius Institute instructor in her mid-thirties and with a bachelor's degree from a prestigious Chinese university, generally spoke favourably about the American university students she taught, although she noted that she did not think they studied hard enough. Robin J. Lerner, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Private Sector Exchange within the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State, had issued a follow-up Amended Guidance Directive of May 25. The document read, ‘A vital part of program administration is ensuring that the site of activity for each exchange participant’s SEVIS record reflects the actual location where the participants are placed. This includes initial placement, as well as any subsequent changes of location’.
