China's Rising Research Universities

A New Era of Global Ambition
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1453-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

This tightly focused analysis of China’s research universities offers important insights on the changing global landscape of higher education and the expanding role of China as a geopolitical leader.

This timely study charts the intentional and accelerated rise of China’s research universities by analyzing how state policy has transformed key institutions. Specifically, it addresses how state initiatives have influenced faculty life and academic culture at these campuses. Based on empirical studies at four of the nation’s leading universities and including more than seventy semi-structured interviews with professors and key administrators, China's Rising Research Universities sheds light on fundamental changes in faculty life.

These changes amount to nothing short of a dramatic transformation of academic culture at the nation’s top universities. National initiatives driven by China’s Ministry of Education seek to develop two overlapping sets of leading universities, through what are known as Project 211 (which affects about 100 universities) and Project 985 (which affects about 40 universities). Project 985 enhancements are particularly important to the country’s efforts to strengthen university science and research.

The book also addresses the broader context of higher education reform in China, arguing that recent efforts to elevate the nation’s top universities toward world-class standing represent a shift in higher education policy development and implementation leading to what is described as China’s Global Ambition Period.

Offering important insights into the changing higher education policy context in an age increasingly defined by globalization, China's Rising Research Universities will appeal to higher education leaders and policymakers; students, faculty, and scientists who interact with Chinese counterparts; and scholars of international and comparative studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rhoads, Robert A

Wang, Xiaoyang

Shi, Xiaoguang

Chang, Yongcai

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baocheng, Ji

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Ji Baocheng
Preface
Introduction: The Chinese University and the Quest for World-Class Standing
1. Tsinghua University and the Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurialism
2. Peking University and the Pursuit of Academic Excellence the "Beida Way"
3. Internationalization of Academic Life and the Changing Face of Renmin University
4. China's Ethnic Diversity and the Critical Role of Minzu University
Conclusion: Achievements and Challenges in the Quest to Build Leading Universities
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wang, Xiaoyang
Xiaoyang Wang, is a professor at Tsinghua University.

Chang, Yongcai
Yongcai Chang is a professor at Minzu University.

Shi, Xiaoguang
Xiaoguang Shi is a professor at Peking University.

Rhoads, Robert A
Robert A. Rhoads is UCLA Professor and Division Head of Higher Education and Organizational Change and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Chinese Studies. He also is a Visiting University Chair Professor at Renmin University. His books include Global Citizenship and the University: Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World and Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Robert A. Rhoads is UCLA Professor and Division Head of Higher Education and Organizational Change and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Chinese Studies. He also is a Visiting University Chair Professor at Renmin University. His books include Global Citizenship and the University: Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World and Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity, also published by Johns Hopkins. Xiaoyang Wang, Xiaoguang Shi, and Yongcai Chang are professors at Tsinghua, Peking, and Minzu Universities respectively.