ABSTRACT

Globalization and internationalization are salient features of our times in significant modern and post-modern social theories. This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international comparative perspective.

chapter One|21 pages

Introduction

chapter Two|15 pages

Nationalism and the Open Door Policy

Chinese Higher Education 1840s–1990s

chapter Three|13 pages

Tensions between the Global and the Local

A Comparative Illustration of the Two Reorganizations of China’s Higher Education in the 1950s and 1990s

chapter Four|15 pages

Globalization

A Context of Inequality and Scarcity

chapter Five|14 pages

Internationalization

Its Meanings, Rationales and Implications

chapter Six|14 pages

Implementing Internationalization

An Overall Picture of Guangzhou Universities

chapter Seven|14 pages

Internationalized While Provincialized?

A Case Study of South China Normal University

chapter Eight|21 pages

Openness and reform as Dynamics for Development

The Case Study of South China University of Technology

chapter Nine|15 pages

Zhongshan University Case Study

Some Analyses of a Comprehensive University

chapter Ten|22 pages

Advantages or Disadvantages

Important Issues for Internationalization of China’s Higher Education

chapter Eleven|17 pages

Conclusions and Future Directions