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…