Self in the West and East Asia

Jin Li is Professor of Education and Human Development at Brown University. Originally from China, she studied German literature and language before moving to the United States, where she has lived since the late 1980s. Her research focuses on East Asian virtue-oriented and Western mind-oriented learning models and how these shape children's learning beliefs, parental socialization, and achievement. She is the author of Cultural Foundations of Learning: East and West (2012).