Soft Power of Chinese Higher Education: Interviews with Experts

Abstract

This chapter mainly focuses on constructing the theoretical model of soft power of Chinese higher education through the semi-structured interviews with ten authoritative experts and scholars in the field of Chinese higher education research. Based on the theoretical model of the soft power of higher education, the concrete practical countermeasures of constructing “soft power of higher education” are discussed. From the distribution of respondents from educational institutions, experts are mainly from the Development of Higher Education Research Center, Ministry of Education, Institute of Education Ministry of Education Development Strategy, Chinese Education Society, and Beijing Normal University. From the position of the interviewees, it is mainly the status of professors and researchers. According to the age distribution of the respondents, the average value was 56. Next, this chapter mainly focuses on the qualitative analysis and research of the expert interview for the construction of the soft power of higher education.