The Third Delight Internationalization of Higher Education in China East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture Series

Globalization and internationalization are salient features of our times in significant modern and post-modern social theories. This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international comparative perspective.

Abstract Acknowledgements Declaration List of Tables Introduction 1.Nationalism and the Open Door Policy: Chinese Higher Education 1840s-1990s 2. Tensions Between the Global and the Local: A Comparative Illustration of Two Reorganisations of China's Higher Education in the 1950s and 1990s 3.Globalisation: A Context of Inequality and Scarcity 4.Internationalisation: Its Meanings, Rationales and Implications 5.Implementing Internationalisation: An Overall Picture of Guangzhou Universities 6.Internationalised while Provincialised? A Case Study of South China Normal Univeristy 7.Openness and Reform as Dynamics for Development: The Case of South China University of Technology 8.Zhongshan University Case Study: Some Analyses of a Comprehensive University 9.Advantages or Disadvantages: Important issues for Internationalisation of China's Higher Education 10.Conclusions and Future Directions Appendix One: Teachers/Researchers Questionnaire Form Appendix Two: Institutional Administrators Questionnaire Form Appendix Three: Interviews Conducting in Guanghou and Hong Kong Appendix Four: Interview Schedule Bibliography