With thousands of Chinese students planning to study at foreign universities this year, the one big question is: are they sufficiently prepared? The answer is probably not.
One of the lucky few, I enrolled as an English major in a Shanghai university in early 1978 soon after the "cultural revolution" (1966-76). Studying abroad was then beyond our wildest imagination --- no channels to contact overseas universities, no idea about the application procedures and, importantly, no money.
As the country started to open up and implement economic and social reform in 1978, it began to make it easier for more students to go overseas, where they could study in fields in which the country needed to catch up.
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