Students Abroad In The U.S And The Modernization Of China Advanced Education

Beginning from Qing Dynasty government's appointing the children to study abroad in the US, the education abroad from China to the US has increased gradually by the initial days of the Republic of China, mainly in the forms of dispatched sponsored by the government fees, study abroad in the US sponsored by Geng fees of the indemnity returning to our country by the US, study abroad in the US sponsored by the provincial fees, and study abroad in the US at one's own expenses.Since the founding of the Republic of China, the western educational ideas have gone into China continuously with the occuring of New Culture Movement. Then the forepart students in the US returned to China one after another, took actively part in the educational activities, promoted widely US education and its ideas, thus an increasingly rising voice to promote, learn, and use US education for reference. Therefore, not only the educational and cultural communication between China and US has been intensified, but US education and culture had a great influence on the education reform and development in China.Whether the educational and cultural communication between China and US or the education reform and development in China, the students abroad in the US played a significant role and brought a far-reaching influence. Having returned to China, many students abroad in the US acquired the prominent achievements in education, science and industry, particularly in the higher education of China. Universities of China became the main fields of activities of the students abroad in the US. A large quantity of students abroad in the US contributed themselves to the development of the higher education, by assuming the office of the university president or staff.By seeing the higher education, The paper introduces the general situation of modern education abroad in the US, analyses and researches the prominent contributions in the field of higher education by the students abroad in the US, and sums it up in 5 aspects: First, devote oneself into the higher education, enrich teaching and administrative staff;Second, learn the US, advocate and participate in the reform of higher education system;Third, introduce western scientific educational theories and promote the development of China educational science;Fourth, drive actively the universities' educational reform according with the facts and having the development in one's mind;Fifth, develop actively the international academic exchanging, and enhances the universities running level.Meanwhile, the paper also indicates the negative influence that the students abroad in the US brought to the modern China higher education, such as the theory of the education saving the nation, copying word for word in setting the subjects and disciplines, and so on. Based on it, the paper researches its own reason that the students abroad in the US obtained the considerable achievements in the modern China higher education, and how to evaluate objectively the modern upsurge of study abroad in the US and its influence.