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Hong Kong and mainland China continue to evolve as separate socio-political systems within the same nation. Yet, the cultural affinity, geographical proximity, and sover-eignty umbrella of these two transitional societies make them a good case study of the effects of economic globalization on the transformation of their respective university systems. The aim of this chapter is to examine the influence of economic globalization on higher education in these two Chinese systems. The comparison of these two systems highlights the growing convergence brought about by globalization and shared cultural heritage between the socialist mainland and capitalist Hong Kong, as both their higher education systems come to function as coordinators for further global economic integration, and knowledge economies. This can be seen below in the processes of expansion, consolidation, differentiation, and internationalization.
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Postiglione, G. (2004). Universities for Knowledge Economies:Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland within Globalization and Decentralization. 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_9
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