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China’s Higher Education in Global Perspective

Leader or Follower in the ‘World-Class’ Movement?

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A rapidly growing body of scholarly literature has evolved to describe the impressive scale and pace at which the Chinese higher education has developed over recent decades. This is often being analysed as a response to globalization.

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Van Der Wende, M., Zhu, J. (2016). China’s Higher Education in Global Perspective. In: Liu, N.C., Cheng, Y., Wang, Q. (eds) Matching Visibility and Performance. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-773-3_7

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