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Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation

An Untold Story

edited by Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan & Qiang Zha

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2016
Category
General
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    ISBN
    9780773599192
    Publish Date
    Jun 2016
    List Price
    $110.00

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Canada was one of the first Western countries to sign an agreement to provide development aid to China in 1983, and the Canadian International Development Agency invited universities to cooperate in ways that would facilitate "the multiplication of contacts at the thinking level."

In Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation, leading scholars from Canadian and Chinese universities elaborate on the historical experience of collaboration in areas as different as environmental science, marine science, engineering, management, law, agriculture, medicine, education, minority cultures, and women’s studies. Contributors use theoretical frames such as dependency theory, human capital, the knowledge economy, and Habermas’s theory of communicative action, to facilitate a striking dialogue between Canadian and Chinese perspectives on common questions. They provide insights into factors that ensured the long-term success of some partnerships, as well as barriers that hindered others, and vivid lessons for current collaboration. Case studies include a project that began with the training of Chinese judges developing into reciprocal programs in legal education in China, Canada, and Latin America, and an examination of how joint environmental research has had policy impacts at national and international levels.

Presenting the story of universities working together in the era after the Cultural Revolution, Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation is a unique account of partnerships in knowledge production and application and their resulting impacts.

About the authors

Ruth Hayhoe is Professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto.

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Julia Pan is a research associate at OISE, University of Toronto.

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Qiang Zha is associate professor of education at York University.

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