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Progress and Paradoxes: New Developments in China’s Higher Education

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Centralization and Decentralization

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One of the great changes witnessed since the early 1980s has been the increasingly important position of China internationally as a socio-economic and geopolitical force. This change has been based on two facts: that the Chinese government has shifted from its isolationist, politics-oriented policies to open door, economic-oriented policies; and the continuous annual GDP increase of about 9 per cent for nearly 20 years. This change has been accompanied by major reforms in higher education ([Agelasto & Adamson 1998], p.l), which are ascribed a key supporting role in the drive to modern- ize the nation. With the recent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the exponential growth in the use of the Internet, China is accelerating its integration with the rest of the world. Chinese higher education is gaining stronger links with the international community and it is no longer immune from international forces, and thus has to confront new challenges ([Yang 2002a]).

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Yang, R. (2004). Progress and Paradoxes: New Developments in China’s Higher Education. In: Ka-Ho, M. (eds) Centralization and Decentralization. CERC Studies in Comparative Education, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0956-0_10

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