Implications of China’s Higher Education Development: From the Perspective of Comparative Culture
Contemporary comparative and international studies of higher education have portrayed the powerful influence of economic and political realities.Cultural dimensions,especially those of traditional ways of thinking,have often been ignored.As universities are culturally embedded,it is erroneous to treat them as the same entity in various cultural contexts.Chinese traditional culture cannot coexist easily with the globally dominant European-American university model,and it is a unfinished business of integrating Chinese and Western ideas of a university.With a strong catch-up mentality,universities in China are often uncritical towards the European-American model.Without an infusion of traditional education values,universities in China risk losing touch with their cultural roots in their quest for world-class status.