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China's Universities since Tiananmen: A Critical Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Ruth Hayhoe
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China's present leadership sees universities as being of key importance for the country's economic development and for its relationship with Western countries. This is a kind of two-edged sword. On the one hand, considerable support and encouragement for scientific and technological development is provided, together with pressures for scientific findings to be applied to specific economic development needs. On the other, the reflective and theoretical social sciences and the humanities are being purged of Western influences in efforts to mobilize all resources against what is seen as the Western strategy of fostering “peaceful evolution” towards capitalism. The kinds of tension that arise out of this highly contradictory situation are severe.

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Chinese Education Since Tiananmen
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The China Quarterly , Volume 134 , June 1993 , pp. 291 - 309
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1993

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