Yun-shiuan (Viola) Chen received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is currently an assistant research fellow at Taiwan’s National Academy for Educational Research.

«This book immerses the reader in the discourse of modernizing and internationalizing Taiwanese society from 1955 to 2000. Chen has unpacked the complexity of the Ministry’s programs for sending students abroad for higher education, drawing upon ‘the diverse perspectives to be found in transnational socioeconomic structures, political ideologies, cultural exchanges in the terrain of education and the dynamics of these various sources of power.’ The result is a book about the meaning of education, but also about the intrigues of decolonialization, Cold War stand-off, political negotiation, and human aspiration.» (Robert E. Stake, Professor Emeritus of Education, Educational Psychology, Director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Yun-shiuan (Viola) Chen received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is currently an assistant research fellow at Taiwan’s National Academy for Educational Research.

«This book immerses the reader in the discourse of modernizing and internationalizing Taiwanese society from 1955 to 2000. Chen has unpacked the complexity of the Ministry’s programs for sending students abroad for higher education, drawing upon ‘the diverse perspectives to be found in transnational socioeconomic structures, political ideologies, cultural exchanges in the terrain of education and the dynamics of these various sources of power.’ The result is a book about the meaning of education, but also about the intrigues of decolonialization, Cold War stand-off, political negotiation, and human aspiration.» (Robert E. Stake, Professor Emeritus of Education, Educational Psychology, Director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Yun-shiuan (Viola) Chen received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She is currently an assistant research fellow at Taiwan’s National Academy for Educational Research.

«This book immerses the reader in the discourse of modernizing and internationalizing Taiwanese society from 1955 to 2000. Chen has unpacked the complexity of the Ministry’s programs for sending students abroad for higher education, drawing upon ‘the diverse perspectives to be found in transnational socioeconomic structures, political ideologies, cultural exchanges in the terrain of education and the dynamics of these various sources of power.’ The result is a book about the meaning of education, but also about the intrigues of decolonialization, Cold War stand-off, political negotiation, and human aspiration.» (Robert E. Stake, Professor Emeritus of Education, Educational Psychology, Director of the Center for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)