Internationalizing the Social Sciences in China

The current social reality and changing global forces and spaces are inspiring the rethinking, refining, and re-empowering of the world social sciences to broach the frontiers of human knowledge, enhance mutual understanding across cultures and civilizations, and shape a better world. Taking Tsinghua University's sociology as a case, this book concentrates on how internationalization shapes disciplinary development in a global context of asymmetrical academic relations. This inquiry is set amidst China's dramatic economic, social, political, and cultural transformations, as well as the institutional reforms in this Chinese flagship university. This book seeks to probe how Chinese and Western knowledge, institutions, and cultures are integrated in the ongoing process of internationalization and concentrates on the disciplinary evolution of Tsinghua's sociology-intellectually, institutionally, and culturally-drawing on top-down higher education policy and bottom-up perceptions and experiences of Tsinghua's social scientists. This book highlights that higher education internationalization is an evolving process whose advanced phase would require Chinese social scientists to bring China to the world. It is time for Tsinghua University to reassess the long-term impact of internationalization on its academic disciplines and provide sufficient support for the development of the social sciences.This book will attract academics, practitioners, and postgraduate students interested in higher education internationalization, international academic relations, global constellation and distribution of academic power, academic knowledge production, and the development and intellectual influences of the Chinese social sciences.

Auteur
Meng Xie is a lecturer and Distinguished Young Scholar in the School of Education at Renmin University of China (RUC) in Beijing. Her primary research focuses on higher education, international and comparative higher education, internationalization and international academic relations, and educational policy and management. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Higher Education, Frontiers of Education in China, and Tsinghua Journal of Education. She has taught courses for undergraduate, master and doctoral students, including History of Higher Education and Globalization and Higher Education Reforms. Prior to her appointment at the RUC, she obtained her PhD in Policy, Administration and Social Sciences Education from the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong and a master's degree in Higher Education from the Institute of Education of Tsinghua University. She was also a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge University. Her current research centers on the intellectual history and academic influence of the Chinese social sciences, Chinese intellectuals, and spaces of global knowledge in the social sciences.

Contenu
Chapter 1Internationalizing the Social Sciences in China: An Introduction1.1 Statement of the ProblemThe Evolution of Global Social SciencesThe Internationalization of Higher Education in ChinaThe International Visibility and Influence of China's Social SciencesIn the Spotlight: The Global Vision and Achievements of Tsinghua UniversityOpportunities and Challenges for Tsinghua's Social Sciences101.2 Research Questions1.3 A Case-Based Methodological ApproachRationales for Adopting the Case StudyRationales for Adopting Tsinghua's Sociology as the Case1.4 The Significance of the StudyTheoretical SignificancePractical Significance1.5 Structure of the BookChapter 2The Evolution of the Social Sciences and Global Academic Relations: A Theoretical Reflection2.1 Studies on the Internationalization of Higher EducationUnderstanding the Internationalization of Higher EducationInternationalization versus Globalization2.2 Studies on Academic Disciplines and the Social SciencesComprehending Academic DisciplinesClassification of Academic DisciplinesTheories of the Academic Discipline2.3 A Review of International Academic Relations in the Social SciencesThe Uneven Internationalization of the Social SciencesChallenging Euro-American DominationA Multi-Polarized Academic WorldA Revolution in Global Social Sciences?2.4 SummaryChapter 3The Internationalization of the Social Sciences in Chinese Universities: A Historical and Critical Perspective3.1 The Social Sciences in Imperial China (1840-1912): The Emerging DisciplinesWestern Hegemony and the Spread of Western LearningChinese Translations of Foreign BooksOverseas-trained Chinese intellectualsThe Development of Modern Universities and the Discipline System3.2 Social Sciences in the ROC Period (1912-1949): Europeanization and AmericanizationSocio-political, Cultural, and Educational Backgrounds of the Development of the Social SciencesDeveloping the Social Sciences under Western InfluencesIndigenizing the Social Sciences in ChinaAchievements and Dilemmas in the Social Sciences in the ROC Period3.3 Social Sciences in the PRC during the Mao Period (1949-1976): The Soviet ModelThe Soviet ModelTwenty Lost Years3.4 Social Sciences in the PRC in the Post-Mao Period (After 1977): Internationalization and IndigenizationThe Reconstruction of the Social Sciences in Chinese UniversitiesThe Contemporary Internationalization of Social Sciences in Chinese UniversitiesThe Indigenous Response to the Western Social Sciences3.5 SummaryChapter 4Internationalizing The Disciplinary Organization of Sociology at Tsinghua4.1 The Disciplinary Organization of Tsinghua's Sociology: An Institutional Snapshot4.2 World-Class University Policies and Internationalization Strategies92Phase I: Projects 211 and 985Phase II: Double First-Class University Plan4.3 Institutional IsomorphismMimetic IsomorphismNormative IsomorphismCoercive Isomorphism4.4 Institutional HeterogeneityChinese CharacteristicsThe Tsinghua StyleFeatures of the Department4.5 SummaryChapter 5Internationalization and Indigenization: Knowledge Production and Dissemination of Tsinghua's Sociology5.1 Examining Knowledge Production and DisseminationThe Sites of Knowledge Production and CirculationResearch Scopes and TerritoriesTheoretical Affiliations and OriginalityMethodological Spaces5.2 The Dialectical Relations in Intellectual Evolution<...