Higher Education in Post-Mao China

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Acknowledgements About the Contributors Abbreviations Contents PART 1: THE SCOPE OF REFORM 1 Editors'Introduction Michael AGELASTO and Bob ADAMSON Reforms in the Administration and Financing of Higher Education CHENG Kai-ming PART 2: ENHANCING SCHOLARSHIP ix xi xiv 1 11 The Strategic Role of Faculty Development and Management 29 CAO Xiaonan Chinese Scholars and the World Community 59 Wenhui ZHONG Returns to Education - The US/PRC Visiting Scholars 79 Programme - 1978-88 Michele SHORESMAN vi Contents 6. Modernizing Science Through Educating the Elite Cong CAO PART 3: MODERNIZATION AND THE CURRICULUM 99 7. Educational Utilitarianism: Where Goes Higher Education? 121 LIU Yingkai 8. Modernizing English Language Teacher Education 141 Bob ADAMSON 9. Agricultural Universities: Engines of Rural Development? 165 Greg KULANDER 10. Higher Adult Education: Redefinin Its Roles XIAO lin PART 4: MARKETIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION 189 11. Stratification Trends in Technical-Professional 211 Higher Education Vilma sEEBERG 12. Changing Conceptions of Equity and Student Financial 237 Support Policies ZHANG Minxuan 13. Graduate Employment: From Manpower Planning to the 259 Market Economy Michael AGELAsTO 14. Privatization or Quasi-Marketization? 281 MOK Ka-ho and David CHAN PART 5: WOMEN IN CHINESE HIGHER EDUCATION 15. Mixed Blessings: Modernizing the Education of Women 299 Carol C. FAN 16. Chinese Educational Reforms and Feminist Praxis: 321 On Ideals, Process and Paradigm Maria IAsCHOK Contents 17. Gender Differences in Taiwan's Academe Implications for the PRC Chuing Prudence CHOU and Flora Chia-I CHANG PART 6: VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS 18. Is Lei Feng Finally Dead? The Search for Values in a Time of Reform and Transition Gay Garland REED 19. The Limits of Political Loosening: CCP Restraints on Student Behaviour in the Spring of 1989 Teresa WRIGHT PART 7: CONCLUSIONS 20. Editors' Conclusion - The State of Chinese Higher Education Today Michael AGELASTO and Bob ADAMSON Appendix Executive Summary of China: Higher Education Reform. A World Bank Country Study Glossary Select Bibliography Index vii 345 359 375 399 417 435 443 485 ...