Foreign study as a safety-valve: The experience of China's university students going abroad in the eighties

Higher Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 145-163

  Zhao, Dingxin ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 21344437008     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02390442     Document Type: Article

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