Higher Education and China’s Global Rise

Su-Yan Pan is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include China studies, international relations, international academic mobility, higher education, and citizenship education. Her recent publications have appeared in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Comparative Education Review, The Pacific Review, Journal of Studies in International Education, Journal of Education Policy, and Higher Education Policy.Joe Tin Yau Lo is the director of the General Education Office, the Education University of Hong Kong. He has published extensively in the areas of social science education, history education, comparative education, citizenship education, and China studies. His recent publications have appeared in Comparative Education, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, The Pacific Review, Chinese Education and Society, Research in Comparative and International Education, and the International Journal of Educational Reform, among others.

• AcknowledgementForeword 1. Chapter 1: Introduction: China’s rise, neo-tributary, and educational diplomacy2. Chapter 2: Understanding China as a rising power: theoretical lenses3. Chapter 3: Chinese views of the world and missions of higher education 4. Chapter 4: The politics of Sino-Western educational exchange 5. Chapter 5: Cultural assimilation into Chinese norms of higher education 6. Chapter 6: Making discursive legitimacy for moral leadership in power7. Chapter 7: Paradoxical issues in educational diplomacy 8. Chapter 8: ConclusionIndex