It’s not just Chinese international students funding American academia.
Shanda Global Investment, an investment firm owned by Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen, donated $35 million to fund an eponymous neuroscience institute at Caltech. Credit: Architect's rendering, Caltech facilities
American universities have reported more than a billion dollars in gifts from China and Hong Kong since 2014, making China their largest source of foreign donations.
During that same period, some U.S. government agencies and American academics themselves have grown increasingly concerned about China’s influence within U.S. academia, from the Thousand Talents recruitment program discussed in this week’s cover story to concerns about how the new Hong Kong Security Law could impact pro
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