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Inside China: Scientists with borders
- Meet two scientists who were among the first Chinese citizens to be educated in US universities in the 1970s, and how the experience shaped them
Members of the first group of Chinese students to travel to the US for university study in the late 1970s.
When US President Jimmy Carter and Chinese Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping stood together on the White House lawn before their historic meeting in 1978, it had already been one month since another historic first: the arrival of the first Chinese students to attend universities and colleges in the US since the 1949 proclamation of the People’s Republic of China.
Much has changed since then, but in this podcast you will hear the experiences of two of these students, Yan Dachun and Liu Bacheng. They suffered persecution as intellectuals under the extremes of the Cultural Revolution but became part of a group of 52 pioneering young men and women selected to receive an education in the US in the hope they could restart China’s scientific and technological development.
Presenter: Laurie Chen
Original story: Zheping Huang
Original interview recordings: Tom Wang
Voiceovers: Mat Booth, Brian Peach
Written by: Jarrod Watt
Producers: Yang Yang and Jarrod Watt