ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an overall picture of internationalization in Guangzhou universities. As Knight and De Wit correctly detect, in spite of a few recent studies, little research has been done on the historical roots of the present wave of internationalization of higher education. Since 1985, as devolution increased in China’s higher education, provincial governments and individual institutions of higher education gained more autonomy in internationalization activities. Literature in the field of higher education internationalization has convincingly shown that internationalization means strikingly different things to universities of various status. Interestingly, survey results reveal rising uncertainty about, and negative responses to, more detailed planning within the institution for internationalization. Academic programs provide the core content of university internationalization. Adequate evaluation of teaching is of significance in safeguarding internationalization of academic programs and curriculum. The Guangzhou study demonstrates that university academics thought the most important conditions to promote internationalization were administrators.
