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This chapter argues for reimaging Chinese students as political subjects in the making during their global mobility, an image different from the three primary images (i.e., learners across cultures, consumers of international education market, and important human capital) that existing literature on international higher education has projected onto these students. The argument is mainly based on the connection between globally mobile Chinese people and China’s democratic development as manifested by the review of the history of China’s democratization in three periods: the Late Qing Period (1840 AD–1911 AD), the Republican Period (1912 AD–1949 AD), and the Socialist Period (1949 AD—present). Against the backdrop of the massive flow of Chinese students pursuing higher education abroad in the twenty-first century, and informed by their predecessors’ important contributions to theories and practices …