Does Overseas Experience Matter?: The Academic Career Development of Returnee Faculty in Chinese Research Universities

The book explores the academic characteristics, career development, and impacts of “foreignness” of Chinese overseas returnees in research universities. It provides valuable insights into the international mobility of academics and the challenges and opportunities that returnee scholars face in terms of research, teaching, international exchange, income, academic promotion, job satisfaction, and career mobility in their academic careers.

Using first-hand large-scale survey data, the author p...