China

NSF Guidelines Amidst Foreign Threats To Research Security
Investment
July 26, 2023

NSF Guidelines Amidst Foreign Threats To Research Security

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The Role of Rhetorical Casuistry in China’s Capitalist Transformation
Business and Management INK
April 26, 2023

The Role of Rhetorical Casuistry in China’s Capitalist Transformation

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Major UN Report Documents China’s Serious Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang. Will UK Universities Respond?
Ethics
September 1, 2022

Major UN Report Documents China’s Serious Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang. Will UK Universities Respond?

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Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder
International Debate
July 21, 2022

Scientific Collaboration Across Borders Just Gets Harder

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Repression, Surveillance, and Censorship in Chinese Academia

Repression, Surveillance, and Censorship in Chinese Academia

The question how to approach international academic cooperation with totalitarian China therefore leads to no easy answers. It nonetheless merits much greater attention than it has received so far.

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Academic Collaboration with China is Important. But What’s the Price?

Academic Collaboration with China is Important. But What’s the Price?

Totalitarian rule and the governance strategies it entails have direct implications for academic internationalization at Chinese universities and for their collaboration with universities abroad.

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Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China

Some Thoughts on Academic Internationalization in China

Within Communist academia, scholarship is managed top-down to a significant degree, for the benefit of part, state and society, and independent research operates in the nooks and crannies that remain. In this institutional environment, independent public speech carries a considerable risk, as does, to an extent, independent thought.

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Watching China Watching Its Students Overseas

Watching China Watching Its Students Overseas

Where ideological issues such as Hong Kong and Taiwan are concerned, Australian lecturers tell of how a vocal minority of international Chinese students are attempting to police teaching materials and class discussions.

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2021: From Scholars to Disposable Labor in the Brave New World of Academic Capitalism

2021: From Scholars to Disposable Labor in the Brave New World of Academic Capitalism

In terms of the organization of academic labor, higher education is ever more sharply divided between, on the one hand, an advantaged minority in full-time, long-term employment and, on the other hand, academia’s reserve army of labor.

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Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Let’s Talk About ‘De-coupling’ and the ‘China Bubble’

Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Let’s Talk About ‘De-coupling’ and the ‘China Bubble’

To what extent do the realities of social research in China live up to the favorable image created by job ads on academic recruitment sites?

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What’s Wrong with WeChat? The Problem with Social Media Censorship

What’s Wrong with WeChat? The Problem with Social Media Censorship

What is WeChat, and what does it do? Apart from ethnically suspect attacks on the platform itself, its ability to socially engineer discussion in China is a genuine concern.

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Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Plan Carefully

Thinking of Taking an Academic Job in China? Better Plan Carefully

At their heart, Chinese public universities are deeply parochial bureaucratic structures geared towards the party-state’s priorities for socio-economic development. In response to national and international pressures, some universities have recently begun to internationalize, with notably different degrees of enthusiasm. Others have not. You would do well to determine, the author writes, into what category a prospective employer falls.

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