The concept of greater China in higher education: Adoptions, dynamics and implications

The concept of greater China in higher education: Adoptions, dynamics and implications

• Lo, Yat Wai The Hong Kong Institue of Education

Comparative Education, 52(1), 26-43, 2016

Routledge

2016

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education
• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education

Greater China Chineseness Hybridization Regionalism Regionalisation

• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• China

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Interpreting modernisation and globalisation in East Asia as processes of Westernisation creates confusion and discomfort among some academics from the region. To illustrate why such discomfort occurs, this article explores the changes in the higher education systems of Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China in terms of their ‘Chineseness’ as a potentially unifying regional identity that can be counterposed to Westernisation. The recent and polyvalent theme of ‘Greater China’ is invoked in this article to describe and interpret the institutional frameworks, within which higher education is developing in this imaginary region, as well as to establish possible discursive linkages in the continuing transformation and strategic reorientation of higher education and its role in the recent economic, political and socio-cultural developments. In this regard, the interrelated discourses of Chineseness and Greater China have the following functions: they imply regionalism; they enable a break with their imperial and colonial past; and they provide the basis for different kinds of hybridisation between Chinese and Western intellectual, educational and cultural traditions and values.
[Copyright © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis.]

• English

Journal Articles

• 03050068
• 13600486

• 10.1080/03050068.2015.1125613

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/e6299d7c

2016-04-18