Three Decades of Chinese Students in America, 1991-2021

Click Here to View the Chinese Webpage (Translation courtesy of Zhang Juan. Special thanks to our partner, The Carter Center, and their publication, 美中故事汇). As a new academic year begins, student flows between the U.S. and China remain far below pre-Covid levels of 2019-2020, while lingering issues and tense U.S.-China relations cloud the prospects for…

USCET Theater Ticket Deal – See Cambodian Rock Band

Graphic above adapted from: Abraham Kim, Joe Ngo, Brooke Ishibashi, Jane Lui, and Tim Liu in “Cambodian Rock Band.” Photo by Margot Schulman. For friends in the DMV area, Arena Stage has offered USCET a 35 percent discount to see the work of talented Asian American playwright Lauren Yee, at Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater. “Lauren…

Building Bridges: USCET and CEAIE

On May 23rd, 2023, USCET met with a visiting delegation from CEAIE in Washington, DC. Their discussions focused on how USCET and CEAIE can work together towards their joint goals of promoting US-China mutual understanding and invigorating bilateral education exchanges. During the pandemic, USCET and CEAIE established productive platforms for disseminating expert information and encouraging…

USCET Completes Survey of Chinese Student Experiences

To better understand the changing experiences of Chinese students in the United States over the past three decades, the US-China Education Trust conducted a non-random survey in late 2022/early 2023. We received 437 responses from individuals from China who graduated from US universities and colleges between 1991 and 2021.

INTERVIEW – Special Advisor to USCET King-Kok Cheung on Defying Expectations and Exploring New Possibilities

By Shwe Einthe April 18, 2023 USCET is proud to congratulate our Special Advisor, Professor King-Kok Cheung, on receiving the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies this month! A renowned literary scholar and Professor Emeritus at UCLA, Professor Cheung talked with USCET intern Shwe Einthe about her scholarly work and her…

2022 Samuel R. Berger Memorial Fellow Named Rhodes Scholar

Yi Duo, one of USCET’s 2022 Samuel “Sandy” R. Berger Memorial fellows, was selected for the 2023 cohort of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship Program at the University of Oxford. Yi Duo is currently a senior undergraduate student at Peking University majoring in International Political Economy. USCET congratulates Yi Duo on this momentous achievement and we…