Education and Ideology: Paving the Way for Cosmopolitan Nationalism
January 19, 2016
By Dr Tracey Fallon, Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at UNNC. According to news reports in December 2015, the governments of Beijing and Shanghai moved to restrict international programmes at high school level.[1] These preparatory foundation programmes provide a pathway to university study abroad without necessity for the intensive gaokao entrance exam. The programmes …
Has ‘Little Brother’ Gone too Far
January 7, 2016
By David O’Brien Assistant Professor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies UNNC. Whether this week’s nuclear explosion detonated under a mountain just a hundred miles or so from the border with China was a hydrogen bomb or not the PRC’s relationship with North Korea may have been irreparably damaged. In perhaps its strongest ever criticism of …
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