Do “Sea Turtles” creep faster than “Soft-shell Turtles”: A quantitative study of academic performance of law faculty in premier Chinese law schools

Author

Wei ZHANG, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

submittedVersion

Publication Date

1-2009

Abstract

Since the adoption of the “Reform and Opening” policy in 1978, China has revived its century long tradition of sending students and scholars to study in western countries. In recent years, the unprecedented economic growth, paired with an increasingly competitive rate of compensation, has attracted a considerable number of such foreign degree holders back home to work or teach. In modern Chinese vocabulary, these returning talents are named as “sea turtles”, a word mimicking the pronunciation of the Chinese equivalent of the English phrase “coming back from abroad”. On the other hand, in compliance with the ancient Chinese rhetorical technique of antithesis, those receiving their entire education domestically2 are referred to as “soft-shell turtles”, a traditional Chinese delicacy totally home-grown.

Discipline

Education Law | Legal Education

Publication

Guang Hua Law Review

Volume

4

First Page

1

Last Page

18

Citation

ZHANG, Wei. Do “Sea Turtles” creep faster than “Soft-shell Turtles”: A quantitative study of academic performance of law faculty in premier Chinese law schools. (2009). Guang Hua Law Review. 4, 1-18.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2617

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