Embracing Western values while cleaving to traditions

Experiments of the Chinese idea of a university at Peking and Tsinghua

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ID2937500
AuthorsRui Yang (0000-0002-2036-0156, University of Hong Kong, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume44
Issue3
Pages348-363
Publication date2023-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2023.2200074
OpenAlexW4366393241
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

For modern universities in China, becoming international has long meant to tread in Western steps in the face of the overweening West. Central to China’s higher education development has been the promise of a successful synthesis of knowledge drawn from the best of China and West. As China’s international engagement in higher education stimulates more and more local policies and reforms on a global scale, the Chinese idea of a university is placed highly on the research agenda within and outside the Chinese mainland. Reporting findings from a recent study funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, with empirical data collected through fieldwork at Peking University and Tsinghua University, this article reveals that combining the seemingly contradictory Chinese and Western ideas of a university is increasingly likely. The conventional binary positioning of Chinese and Western traditional ideas of a university in the literature needs to be rethought

Cartography · China · Economic growth · Geography · Library science · Mainland China · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Higher Education Governance and Development · Law

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