With the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump administration's increasing hostility towards China over the past year,the book Ambitious and Anxious published in 2020 provides us with a timely and valuable empirical study on the dilemma of Chinese international students on American campuses.As the title of the book shows,the author accurately captures the complex mentality,i.e.,"ambitious and anxious," of Chinese international students studying in the US,in particular the undergraduate students who have grown up in China's post-reform era.