This is the first book that probes the lived experiences of Chinese immigrant faculty in
North American higher education institutions: their struggles, challenges, successes, etc.
It explores how their past experiences in China have shaped who they are now, what
they do and how they pursue their teaching, research, and service, as well as the reality
of their everyday life that inevitably intertwines with their present and past diverse cultural
backgrounds and unique experiences.
Different from previous books that explore immigrant/minority faculty defined ambiguously and broadly and from the theoretical
framework of ethnic relations, this book has a particular focus on mainland Chinese immigrant faculty, which
offers a richer and deeper understanding of their cross-culture experiences through autoethnographic research and by multiple
lenses. Through authors' vivid portray of the ebbs and flows of their life in the academe, readers will gain an enjoyable
and holistic knowledge of the cultural, political, linguistic, scholarly, and personal issues contemporary Chinese
immigrant faculty encounter as they cross the border of multiple worlds.
All contributors to this book had the experience of being the first-generation Chinese immigrants, and they either are currently
teaching or used to teach in North American higher education institutions,
who were born, brought up, educated in Mainland China and came to North America
for graduate degrees from early 1980s to 2000.
