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Towards a Chinese definition of higher education internationalisation? A systematic review of the Chinese and English literature
- Abstract:
- The definitions of internationalisation have been contested and require contextualisation. Despite the long-standing practice of and research on higher education internationalisation in Mainland China, ambiguities regarding the concept persist. This study examines academic discourses on the internationalisation of Chinese higher education. It draws on a systematic literature review of 240 journal articles published in Mandarin Chinese and English. Findings reveal the prevalence of defining internationalisation using Western discourses and attempts to provide Chinese definitions of internationalisation. The review also identifies the coexistence of educational, economic, political, and cultural logic clusters in the discourses on the internationalisation of Chinese higher education. In addition, the article discusses temporality, spatiality, affectivity and relationality in the discourses and their corresponding themes. It concludes with a discussion on the ‘Chinese characteristics’ of higher education internationalisation, and reflections on the common dichotomies and myth in the existing literature.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/01596306.2023.2200075
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- Taylor & Francis
- Journal:
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education More from this journal
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 364–388
- Publication date:
- 2023-04-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-04-05
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1469-3739
- ISSN:
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0159-6306
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English
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1337785
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pubs:1337785
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2023-04-19
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- Xu
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
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