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China's Rising Research Universities

A New Era of Global Ambition

Robert A. Rhoads, Xiaoyang Wang, Xiaoguang Shi, and Yongcai Chang
foreword by Ji Baocheng

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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...

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.

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China’s Rising Research Universities is a valuable resource on China’s new status as a major player in global higher education, particularly in its ambitious pursuit of world-class universities. The book provides in-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities for Chinese research universities through valuable first-hand accounts and case studies.

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224
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9781421414539
Table of Contents

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

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

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Robert A. Rhoads

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...
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