1st Edition
How China’s System of Higher Education Works Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos
Acknowledgments Preface 1. Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: HEWCC 2. Pragmatic Instrumentalism: A Faulty Modernization Ideology 3. China’s Centralized-Decentralized Higher Education Governance Model 4. Vacillation on Institutional Autonomy and Academic Freedom: A Discourse of Uncertainty 5. Self-Mastery: A Misrepresented Concept within China Higher Education 6. In Pursuit of Rational Chaos: A Dynamic of Evolutionary Emergence within China’s Complex System of Higher Education 7. Rational Chaos and Collective-Individualism: Diverse Patterns of Identity and Institutional Change 8. Towards a Praxis of Collective Individualism: No Longer ‘Dancing in the Chains’ of Self-Mastery 9. Conclusion: A Call for Increased Understanding and Engagement with HEWCC 11. Appendix: Eight Interviews Coded through the RCM for Identity and Institutional Change
Biography
Benjamin J. Green is Assistant Professor in the College of Teacher Education at Beijing Language and Culture University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Education from the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. His recent works have focused on China's higher education internationalization, US-China relations, digital nationalism, critical cosmopolitanism, collective intelligence, and Chinese internationalism as a contested project of alternative modernity.
