A01=Robert A. Rhoads
A01=Xiaoguang Shi
A01=Xiaoyang Wang
A01=Yongcai Chang
Academic research in China
Author_Robert A. Rhoads
Author_Xiaoguang Shi
Author_Xiaoyang Wang
Author_Yongcai Chang
Category=JNM
China
China's universities
China’s universities
Chinese research universities
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eq_society-politics
faculty
Faculty life in China
globalization
Globalization and higher education
higher education
research
universities
University reform in China
world-class
World-class universities
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- ISBN 9781421414539
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2014
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
