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Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought
tremendous economic and social changes. While China's economic
progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with
economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those
concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental
issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in
China since the opening up and reform in 1978. The study of gender,
ethnicity, labor, and environment touches on some of the
fundamental problems of modernization, especially the development
of individuals and groups. So even though gender, ethnicity, labor,
and environment seem to be separate issues, they are in fact
related in some fundamental ways. That's what this book will
explore as well. To understand is one thing and to do is another.
This book also incorporates studies of NGO practices to see how
NGOs have helped in transforming gender, ethnic, labor, and
environment interplay. Our study of NGOs in helping improve such
interplay sheds light on how specifically civil society can prod
the state to transform social relations for the better. This book
is an attempt to assess the changes, both positive and negative, in
gender, ethnic, ethnic, and environmental relations in China
especially in the past 30 years of opening up and reform,
especially regarding national identity formation.
Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought
tremendous economic and social changes. While China's economic
progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with
economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those
concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental
issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in
China since the opening up and reform in 1978. The study of gender,
ethnicity, labor, and environment touches on some of the
fundamental problems of modernization, especially the development
of individuals and groups. So even though gender, ethnicity, labor,
and environment seem to be separate issues, they are in fact
related in some fundamental ways. That's what this book will
explore as well. To understand is one thing and to do is another.
This book also incorporates studies of NGO practices to see how
NGOs have helped in transforming gender, ethnic, labor, and
environment interplay. Our study of NGOs in helping improve such
interplay sheds light on how specifically civil society can prod
the state to transform social relations for the better. This book
is an attempt to assess the changes, both positive and negative, in
gender, ethnic, ethnic, and environmental relations in China
especially in the past 30 years of opening up and reform,
especially regarding national identity formation.
This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East
Asia, the U.S. and Australia is under stress. Academic freedom
means freedom to teach, research, and serve in multiple political
and social roles based on professional principles. It is closely
linked to shared governance, in which academics participate in and
influence decision making in core academic concerns such as
choosing new faculty, faculty promotion, tenure decisions and the
approval of new academic programs. In different countries and
regions, the duress confronting academic freedom may come from
different directions, and the ability of faculty to share power can
vary greatly. In authoritarian mainland China, it is mostly
political and ideological controls that greatly affect academic
freedom, and shared governance is very much limited. In
semi-democracies like Hong Kong and Macau and democracies like
Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the U.S. and Australia, corporatization
and commercialization have had great impact on both academic
freedom and shared governance. The result is that the roles
professors play within academia are continually being diminished
and the academic profession is struggling to maintain its ground.
Similar developments are also occurring in Europe. These
developments should cause great concern to educators, researchers
and policymakers everywhere. The authors collected here present
attempts to learn from current practice in order to move policy
into directions that will help protect higher education as a common
good. This book highlights the importance of academic freedom and
provides insights into the ways it is being infringed both by
commercialization and corporatization on the one hand and political
repression on the other. It vividly illustrates detailed case
studies and empirical data that make it a compelling read.-
Professor Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto, Canada Academic
freedom is as important today as at any time in the last century.
The authors point out the challenges that academic freedom faces on
a global scale. The import of the book is in its comparative
perspective steeped in data and analysis. Thoughtful. Cogent.
Compelling. - Professor William G. Tierney and Professor
Wilbur-Kieffer, University of Southern California, United States
This book argues that academic freedom in higher education in East
Asia, the U.S. and Australia is under stress. Academic freedom
means freedom to teach, research, and serve in multiple political
and social roles based on professional principles. It is closely
linked to shared governance, in which academics participate in and
influence decision making in core academic concerns such as
choosing new faculty, faculty promotion, tenure decisions and the
approval of new academic programs. In different countries and
regions, the duress confronting academic freedom may come from
different directions, and the ability of faculty to share power can
vary greatly. In authoritarian mainland China, it is mostly
political and ideological controls that greatly affect academic
freedom, and shared governance is very much limited. In
semi-democracies like Hong Kong and Macau and democracies like
Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the U.S. and Australia, corporatization
and commercialization have had great impact on both academic
freedom and shared governance. The result is that the roles
professors play within academia are continually being diminished
and the academic profession is struggling to maintain its ground.
Similar developments are also occurring in Europe. These
developments should cause great concern to educators, researchers
and policymakers everywhere. The authors collected here present
attempts to learn from current practice in order to move policy
into directions that will help protect higher education as a common
good. This book highlights the importance of academic freedom and
provides insights into the ways it is being infringed both by
commercialization and corporatization on the one hand and political
repression on the other. It vividly illustrates detailed case
studies and empirical data that make it a compelling read.-
Professor Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto, Canada Academic
freedom is as important today as at any time in the last century.
The authors point out the challenges that academic freedom faces on
a global scale. The import of the book is in its comparative
perspective steeped in data and analysis. Thoughtful. Cogent.
Compelling. - Professor William G. Tierney and Professor
Wilbur-Kieffer, University of Southern California, United States
Zhidong Hao's fascinating book, Intellectuals at a Cross-roads,
examines groups of contemporary Chinese intellectuals, their
successes, failures, identity contradictions, and ethical dilemmas.
Three categories of intellectuals are studied: organic
intellectuals who serve specific interests, from government and
business to working class movements; critical intellectuals who
defy authority with continued social criticism; and "unattached"
intellectuals who are fast being professionalized. Using a
historical-comparative approach enhanced with demographic and rare
interview data, the book bridges the traditional with the modern
and the Chinese with the foreign by exploring how these
intellectuals are adapting to their roles and influencing
political, economic, and social change in the new China.
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