Suyan Pan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4516394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suyan Pan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pan |
| SIGNATURE | PAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6723-2100 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Understanding the Chinese Concept of “Holistic National Security”
Since the People's Republic of China introduced the concept of “holistic national security” in 2014, it has become a cornerstone of China's strategic thinking, prompting extensive domestic and international discourses. International scholars have examined its implications for China's domestic governance and international relations. However, a persistent challenge remains: the absence of a coherent conceptual framework to explain the discursive bi…
Discursive imaginaries and lived realities in the making of an education hub
Reconceptualising ‘internationalisation’ in higher education
This article examines the meaning and features of ‘internationalisation’ in higher education in the social and historical contexts of Hong Kong. From a perspective of shifting geopolitics of higher education aligned with a historical perspective of evolving academic traditions, this article discerns parallel developments featuring the transition of Hong Kong universities along two pathways—benchmarking Western universities’ internationalisation a…
The internationalisation of China’s higher education
Recent research has focused either on the internationalisation of China’s higher education (HE) as soft power, or on soft power with ‘Chinese characteristics’. There is a paucity of research combining these two foci. This paper fills this gap by: (i) unravelling the meanings and features of the ‘Chinese characteristics’ embodied in the policies of President Xi Jinping’s new regime that seeks to rejuvenate the ‘civilisational state’ through intern…
Identity, civic engagement, and learning about citizenship
Drawing on two surveys conducted before and after the 2014 Umbrella Movement, this paper discusses the dynamics of how Hong Kong (HK) university students constructed their own ideals of citizenship. The former survey reveals that HK university students’ ideas about citizenship were mainly associated with their visceral sense of HK belonging. They aspired to social movements as a site for learning and exercising citizenship. However, the findings …
Confucius and Crisis in American Universities
Chinese Returnees from Overseas Study
Re-conceptualizing China's rise as a global power
Two analytical perspectives – conventional wisdom derived from warlordism and European colonialism, and soft-power concepts drawn from post-Cold-War American international relations – are prevalent lenses for analysing China's global rise. However, neither considers the role of the past in shaping China's contemporary diplomacy. This paper fills the gap of this under-researched area by providing an alternative perspective featuring analytic categ…
Confucius Institutes and China’s soft power
Since China's implementation of the Confucius Institute (CI) project in 2004, most academic works have been written on its objectives, nature, features, development, problems and challenges, especially in terms of soft power projection. Though some of them could unravel the tensions and paradoxes in the CI project, there is a paucity of in-depth and focused analysis on the related issues with a more systematic framework. Utilising Tellis et al.'s…
Confucius Institute project
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of cultural diplomacy to explore and explain the role and function of the Confucius Institution project and its implications for understanding of China's soft power projection. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first presents the theories of soft power and cultural diplomacy as an analytic framework. It then delineates an interpretative illustration of the CI project as a platform …
China's approach to the international market for higher education students
The rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a new destination for international students has been widely reported in both the domestic and international mass media, but academic research into this phenomenon and its theoretical implications are lacking. The purposes of this article are threefold. First, by examining the dynamics underpinning the PRC's efforts to shape the inflow of international students, it reveals the major strategies t…
Education abroad, human capital development, and national competitiveness
Multileveled citizenship and citizenship education
With reference to three secondary schools in Beijing, this study investigates students' perceptions of multiple identities at four levels – self, local, national, and global – and the ways in which students form multiple identities. The study uses a mixed methodology of questionnaires and interview surveys to collect data, and identifies four patterns of Beijing students' multiple identities: a high value on self-identity, a strong affective orie…
Game theory and educational policy
Intertwining of Academia and Officialdom and University Autonomy
Economic globalization, politico‐cultural identity and university autonomy
A great deal of research has addressed the tension between economic globalization and local cultural identity, and the tension between convergence in global policy objectives and divergence in local practices, but research has not explored the impact of the complex interactions between these tensions on an individual university, especially in relation to university autonomy. This paper attempts to bridge this gap. Based on a case study of Tsinghu…
China's approach to the international market for higher education students
The rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a new destination for international students has been widely reported in both the domestic and international mass media, but academic research into this phenomenon and its theoretical implications are lacking. The purposes of this article are threefold. First, by examining the dynamics underpinning the PRC's efforts to shape the inflow of international students, it reveals the major strategies t…
Confucius Institutes and China’s soft power
Since China's implementation of the Confucius Institute (CI) project in 2004, most academic works have been written on its objectives, nature, features, development, problems and challenges, especially in terms of soft power projection. Though some of them could unravel the tensions and paradoxes in the CI project, there is a paucity of in-depth and focused analysis on the related issues with a more systematic framework. Utilising Tellis et al.'s…
The internationalisation of China’s higher education
Recent research has focused either on the internationalisation of China’s higher education (HE) as soft power, or on soft power with ‘Chinese characteristics’. There is a paucity of research combining these two foci. This paper fills this gap by: (i) unravelling the meanings and features of the ‘Chinese characteristics’ embodied in the policies of President Xi Jinping’s new regime that seeks to rejuvenate the ‘civilisational state’ through intern…
Re-conceptualizing China's rise as a global power
Two analytical perspectives – conventional wisdom derived from warlordism and European colonialism, and soft-power concepts drawn from post-Cold-War American international relations – are prevalent lenses for analysing China's global rise. However, neither considers the role of the past in shaping China's contemporary diplomacy. This paper fills the gap of this under-researched area by providing an alternative perspective featuring analytic categ…
Intertwining of Academia and Officialdom and University Autonomy
Multileveled citizenship and citizenship education
With reference to three secondary schools in Beijing, this study investigates students' perceptions of multiple identities at four levels – self, local, national, and global – and the ways in which students form multiple identities. The study uses a mixed methodology of questionnaires and interview surveys to collect data, and identifies four patterns of Beijing students' multiple identities: a high value on self-identity, a strong affective orie…
Game theory and educational policy
Economic globalization, politico‐cultural identity and university autonomy
A great deal of research has addressed the tension between economic globalization and local cultural identity, and the tension between convergence in global policy objectives and divergence in local practices, but research has not explored the impact of the complex interactions between these tensions on an individual university, especially in relation to university autonomy. This paper attempts to bridge this gap. Based on a case study of Tsinghu…
Identity, civic engagement, and learning about citizenship
Drawing on two surveys conducted before and after the 2014 Umbrella Movement, this paper discusses the dynamics of how Hong Kong (HK) university students constructed their own ideals of citizenship. The former survey reveals that HK university students’ ideas about citizenship were mainly associated with their visceral sense of HK belonging. They aspired to social movements as a site for learning and exercising citizenship. However, the findings …
Economic globalization, politico‐cultural identity and university autonomy
A great deal of research has addressed the tension between economic globalization and local cultural identity, and the tension between convergence in global policy objectives and divergence in local practices, but research has not explored the impact of the complex interactions between these tensions on an individual university, especially in relation to university autonomy. This paper attempts to bridge this gap. Based on a case study of Tsinghu…
Intertwining of Academia and Officialdom and University Autonomy
Game theory and educational policy
Education abroad, human capital development, and national competitiveness
Multileveled citizenship and citizenship education
With reference to three secondary schools in Beijing, this study investigates students' perceptions of multiple identities at four levels – self, local, national, and global – and the ways in which students form multiple identities. The study uses a mixed methodology of questionnaires and interview surveys to collect data, and identifies four patterns of Beijing students' multiple identities: a high value on self-identity, a strong affective orie…
Confucius Institute project
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the theory of cultural diplomacy to explore and explain the role and function of the Confucius Institution project and its implications for understanding of China's soft power projection. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first presents the theories of soft power and cultural diplomacy as an analytic framework. It then delineates an interpretative illustration of the CI project as a platform …
China's approach to the international market for higher education students
The rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a new destination for international students has been widely reported in both the domestic and international mass media, but academic research into this phenomenon and its theoretical implications are lacking. The purposes of this article are threefold. First, by examining the dynamics underpinning the PRC's efforts to shape the inflow of international students, it reveals the major strategies t…
Confucius Institutes and China’s soft power
Since China's implementation of the Confucius Institute (CI) project in 2004, most academic works have been written on its objectives, nature, features, development, problems and challenges, especially in terms of soft power projection. Though some of them could unravel the tensions and paradoxes in the CI project, there is a paucity of in-depth and focused analysis on the related issues with a more systematic framework. Utilising Tellis et al.'s…
Chinese Returnees from Overseas Study
Re-conceptualizing China's rise as a global power
Two analytical perspectives – conventional wisdom derived from warlordism and European colonialism, and soft-power concepts drawn from post-Cold-War American international relations – are prevalent lenses for analysing China's global rise. However, neither considers the role of the past in shaping China's contemporary diplomacy. This paper fills the gap of this under-researched area by providing an alternative perspective featuring analytic categ…
Confucius and Crisis in American Universities
Identity, civic engagement, and learning about citizenship
Drawing on two surveys conducted before and after the 2014 Umbrella Movement, this paper discusses the dynamics of how Hong Kong (HK) university students constructed their own ideals of citizenship. The former survey reveals that HK university students’ ideas about citizenship were mainly associated with their visceral sense of HK belonging. They aspired to social movements as a site for learning and exercising citizenship. However, the findings …
The internationalisation of China’s higher education
Recent research has focused either on the internationalisation of China’s higher education (HE) as soft power, or on soft power with ‘Chinese characteristics’. There is a paucity of research combining these two foci. This paper fills this gap by: (i) unravelling the meanings and features of the ‘Chinese characteristics’ embodied in the policies of President Xi Jinping’s new regime that seeks to rejuvenate the ‘civilisational state’ through intern…
Reconceptualising ‘internationalisation’ in higher education
This article examines the meaning and features of ‘internationalisation’ in higher education in the social and historical contexts of Hong Kong. From a perspective of shifting geopolitics of higher education aligned with a historical perspective of evolving academic traditions, this article discerns parallel developments featuring the transition of Hong Kong universities along two pathways—benchmarking Western universities’ internationalisation a…
Discursive imaginaries and lived realities in the making of an education hub
Understanding the Chinese Concept of “Holistic National Security”
Since the People's Republic of China introduced the concept of “holistic national security” in 2014, it has become a cornerstone of China's strategic thinking, prompting extensive domestic and international discourses. International scholars have examined its implications for China's domestic governance and international relations. However, a persistent challenge remains: the absence of a coherent conceptual framework to explain the discursive bi…
Political science (15 works) · China (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Higher education (6 works) · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (5 works)