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Political Socialization in Chinese Higher Education: Role Differentiation as a Strategy

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Role Differentiation in Chinese Higher Education

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This book used the case of JU to explore the dynamics and complexity of the interplay between the state, university, faculty members, staff, and students in the fulfillment of both political task and academic task in the university. The struggle of JU assisted to look into different actors’ practices regarding the state-assigned political task of making socialist successors and the academic task of preserving university’s academic freedom to educate critical thinkers, and also a flexibility therein to find alternative spaces, revealing a tension between the two tasks and different players’ tactics to deal with the tension.

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Du, X. (2020). Political Socialization in Chinese Higher Education: Role Differentiation as a Strategy. In: Role Differentiation in Chinese Higher Education. Governance and Citizenship in Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8300-1_8

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