1st Edition

China's Universities and the Open Door

By Ruth Hayhoe Copyright 1989

    Recent events in Tianamen Square have made such books abruptly important, though in some aspects outdated. This one examines reforms in higher education from before the republic to March 1988, and focuses on educational and economic relations with groups outside China, and the effect the reforms may

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Knowledge and Modernity: The Emergence of a Contradiction; Chapter 2 Higher Education Reforms in the Eighties; Chapter 3 A New Ethos for the Chinese University; Chapter 4 China's Universities in the World Community: Conformity or Transformation?; Chapter 5 Contrasting Policies of Knowledge Transfer to China; Chapter 6 The Practice of Knowledge Transfer through Educational Cooperation; Chapter 7 China's Universities and the World Bank; Chapter 8 Postscript;

    Biography

    Authored by Hayhoe, Ruth