Can China Bring Back the Best?

What are the key strategies that states can use to increase return migration?
What are the problems China faced in getting people to return? How did those concerns change over time?
What
are the limits on state power to promote reverse migration? (Think
globally, locally and individually) Is the market or the state more
important in bringing back entrepreneurs, and why? How do we explain
China’s relative success in bringing people back?
How can “shortage” drive reverse migration among entrepreneurs and scientists?
What is “Transnational Human Capital?” How can we show that it exists?
How did the events of June 4th create an instant Diaspora and how did Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin deal with this problem?
What is the “Diaspora Option?” Why is it so important?
Why
did Li Yuanchao involve the CCP in reverse migration? What did the
Organization Department of the CCP discover about the problems of
returnees in 2011?
How do we know that the” scientific environment” is a major problem in China?
What do I mean by the “failure hypothesis” and how would one test it? Where can we see it at work in the readings?
Can
returnees change China? What are three of the most important reforms in
universities that can improve the quality of the academics in those
schools?
What are the key domestic forces that resist the
adoption of international norms or rules concerning promotion, grant
applications and the allocation of research money, etc? (use the example
of the Beida reform and the meeting I attended with Li Yuanchao.)
Why
would a university with a president who had a foreign PhD be willing to
have more returnees than a university whose president had only been a
Visiting Scholar abroad?
Why could one argue that local
government was the most important level of the state for encouraging
entrepreneurs to return and what were the key strategies that they
employed?
What are the key controversies about “preferential policies” given to returnees?
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