Springer China’s Outward-Oriented Higher Education Internationalization: A New Typology and Reflections from International Students (East-West Crosscurrents in Higher Education)

This book introduces a new typology of “inward- and outward-oriented” higher education internationalization, and investigates China’s current situation of shifting from a mainly “inward-oriented” higher education internationalization to a more balanced approach. It describes the gap between China’s soft power goals of using higher education internationalization for image and influence enhancement and the reality, and examines the three major dimensions of China’s “outward-oriented” higher education internationalization (i.e. the Confucius Institute program based on Sino-foreign higher education collaboration, international development aid in higher education, and higher education level international student recruitment) based on reflections provided by international graduate students in English instruction programs in education-related majors in three Chinese universities. Providing both theoretical insights and real-world examples, this book is suitable for higher education researchers, graduate students in the relevant fields, administrators of higher education institutions, and policymakers in the government sector. From the Back Cover This book introduces a new typology of “inward- and outward-oriented” higher education internationalization, and investigates China’s current situation of shifting from a mainly “inward-oriented” higher education internationalization to a more balanced approach. It describes the gap between China’s soft power goals of using higher education internationalization for image and influence enhancement and the reality, and examines the three major dimensions of China’s “outward-oriented” HE internationalization (i.e. the Confucius Institute program based on Sino-foreign higher education collaboration, international development aid in higher education, and higher education level international student recruitment) based on reflections provided by international graduate students in English instruction programs in education-related majors in three Chinese universities. Providing both theoretical insights and real-world examples, this book is suitable for higher education researchers, graduate students in the relevant fields, administrators of higher education institutions, and policymakers in the government sector. About the Author Hantian Wu is a “ZJU100” professor and doctoral supervisor at College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. His research focuses on higher education internationalization, comparative higher education, higher education development in emerging economies, and academic knowledge production. He has published on these topics in journals such as Higher Education, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, and Journal of Studies in International Education. He earned his doctoral degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and master's degree from Teachers College of Columbia University. He also conducted postdoctoral research at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.