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The history of Chinese higher education is long, and marked by numerous milestones that help illustrate the formulation of the country’s contemporary tertiary education system. A review of this history depicts how various influences, priorities and circumstances have converged to form a system that, while having characteristics in common with other national systems, is unique in sometimes glaring and at other times subtle ways.
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Yu, K., Stith, A.L., Liu, L., Chen, H. (2012). The Chinese Education System – History. In: Yu, K., Stith, A.L., Liu, L., Chen, H. (eds) Tertiary Education at a Glance: China. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 24. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-746-2_2
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