Since the late 1980s,there has been a resurgence of regionalism in world politics.Prospects for new alliances are opened up often on a regional basis.In East and Southeast Asia,regionalization is becoming evident in h...Since the late 1980s,there has been a resurgence of regionalism in world politics.Prospects for new alliances are opened up often on a regional basis.In East and Southeast Asia,regionalization is becoming evident in higher education,with both awareness and signs of a rising ASEAN+3 higher education community.The quest for regional influence in Southeast Asia,however,has not been immune from controversies.One fact has been China’s growing soft power.As a systematically planned soft power policy,China is projecting soft power actively through higher education in the region.Yet,China-ASEAN relations in higher education have been little documented.Unlike the mainstay of the practices of internationalization in higher education that focuses overwhelmingly on educational exchange and collaboration with affluent Western countries,China’s interactions with ASEAN member countries in higher education are fulfilled by“quiet achievers,”mainly seen at the regional institutions in relatively less developed provinces such as Guangxi and Yunnan.This article selects regional higher education institutions in China’s much disadvantaged provinces to depict a different picture to argue that regionalization could contribute substantially to internationalization,if a variety of factors are combined properly.展开更多
China’s dramatic economic rise has tended to overshadow other wider perspectives on the developing China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)relationship,including in higher education.The article examine...China’s dramatic economic rise has tended to overshadow other wider perspectives on the developing China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)relationship,including in higher education.The article examines contemporary relations between China and ASEAN,set against the longer term development of cultural and trade relations.It is argued that,notwithstanding current territorial disputes,and a history of discrimination against ethnic Chinese in several parts of ASEAN,prospects for a deepening of relations in higher education remain strong.Singapore,Malaysia,and Vietnam are selected as three instances of the developing relationship in higher education and some of the links traced,with the former assessed as best placed to take advantage of its China relations in higher education.The developing sense of regionalism is seen as likely to further enhance China-ASEAN relations in higher education.展开更多
文摘Since the late 1980s,there has been a resurgence of regionalism in world politics.Prospects for new alliances are opened up often on a regional basis.In East and Southeast Asia,regionalization is becoming evident in higher education,with both awareness and signs of a rising ASEAN+3 higher education community.The quest for regional influence in Southeast Asia,however,has not been immune from controversies.One fact has been China’s growing soft power.As a systematically planned soft power policy,China is projecting soft power actively through higher education in the region.Yet,China-ASEAN relations in higher education have been little documented.Unlike the mainstay of the practices of internationalization in higher education that focuses overwhelmingly on educational exchange and collaboration with affluent Western countries,China’s interactions with ASEAN member countries in higher education are fulfilled by“quiet achievers,”mainly seen at the regional institutions in relatively less developed provinces such as Guangxi and Yunnan.This article selects regional higher education institutions in China’s much disadvantaged provinces to depict a different picture to argue that regionalization could contribute substantially to internationalization,if a variety of factors are combined properly.
文摘China’s dramatic economic rise has tended to overshadow other wider perspectives on the developing China and Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)relationship,including in higher education.The article examines contemporary relations between China and ASEAN,set against the longer term development of cultural and trade relations.It is argued that,notwithstanding current territorial disputes,and a history of discrimination against ethnic Chinese in several parts of ASEAN,prospects for a deepening of relations in higher education remain strong.Singapore,Malaysia,and Vietnam are selected as three instances of the developing relationship in higher education and some of the links traced,with the former assessed as best placed to take advantage of its China relations in higher education.The developing sense of regionalism is seen as likely to further enhance China-ASEAN relations in higher education.
