Long Road Ahead: Modernizing Chinese Universities

Authors

  • Yang Rui

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2014.77.5680

Keywords:

Western university models in China, higher education, the imperial examinations, China

Abstract

Modern universities are a Western concept. For non-Western societies, indigenizing the Western university model has been an arduous task. This article first analyses China’s long traditions of higher learning. It then illustrates how such markedly different cultural roots have led to continuous conflicts between traditional Chinese and new Western ideas of the university - and of “modernity” itself. It argues that contemporary Chinese universities need to find their Chinese way to balance indigenous and Western ideas of the university.

Author Biography

Yang Rui

Yang Rui is professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.

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Published

2014-09-01

How to Cite

Rui, Y. (2014). Long Road Ahead: Modernizing Chinese Universities. International Higher Education, (77), 17–19. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2014.77.5680

Issue

No. 77: Fall 2014

Section

History and Contemporary Universities

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