Virginia Museum show features glass art pioneer Dale Chihuly_美文

Virginia Museum show features glass art pioneer Dale Chihuly

Li Jing received her doctorate in education from the University of Southern California. She says the way many Chinese students pay for their tuition as changed since she studied this subject in two thousand four. She says the majority of Chinese students received scholarships in the past. Now she says they pay their own way to come study in the United States.

Varun Soni, USC’s Dean of Religious Life, says Chinese students traditionally studied engineering or science. But he says more and more are studying subjects like business, education or film.

“So, I think one of the trends we see with this generation is they’re really thinking about how what they can learn here will help them when they go back to China -- it’s not like they wanna move here permanently like previous generations of students wanted to.”

One Direction and Aerosmith

This week we have new music from what is probably the hottest boy band on the planet: One Direction. We also play songs from a new album by the older, but still popular, “bad boys from Boston” -- Aerosmith. Christopher Cruise has our report.

One Direction’s new record is called “Take me Home.” The album will probably be on the Christmas wish lists of a lot of American girls. It has already sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

The group’s first album, “Up All Night,” sold one point three million copies in the United States since its release eight months ago. It is one of the top selling albums of the year.