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Canadian Universities in China’s TransformationAn Untold Story |
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How Canada contributed to China’s remarkable transformation through university partnerships and knowledge diplomacy.
Canada was one of the first Western countries to sign an agreement to provide development aid to China in 1983, and the Canadian International Development Agency invited universities to cooperate in ways that would facilitate "the multiplication of contacts at the thinking level."
In Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation, leading scholars from Canadian and Chinese universities elaborate on the historical experience of collaboration in areas as different as environmental science, marine science, engineering, management, law, agriculture, medicine, education, minority cultures, and women’s studies. Contributors use theoretical frames such as dependency theory, human capital, the knowledge economy, and Habermas’s theory of communicative action, to facilitate a striking dialogue between Canadian and Chinese perspectives on common questions. They provide insights into factors that ensured the long-term success of some partnerships, as well as barriers that hindered others, and vivid lessons for current collaboration. Case studies include a project that began with the training of Chinese judges developing into reciprocal programs in legal education in China, Canada, and Latin America, and an examination of how joint environmental research has had policy impacts at national and international levels.
Presenting the story of universities working together in the era after the Cultural Revolution, Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation is a unique account of partnerships in knowledge production and application and their resulting impacts.
In Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation, leading scholars from Canadian and Chinese universities elaborate on the historical experience of collaboration in areas as different as environmental science, marine science, engineering, management, law, agriculture, medicine, education, minority cultures, and women’s studies. Contributors use theoretical frames such as dependency theory, human capital, the knowledge economy, and Habermas’s theory of communicative action, to facilitate a striking dialogue between Canadian and Chinese perspectives on common questions. They provide insights into factors that ensured the long-term success of some partnerships, as well as barriers that hindered others, and vivid lessons for current collaboration. Case studies include a project that began with the training of Chinese judges developing into reciprocal programs in legal education in China, Canada, and Latin America, and an examination of how joint environmental research has had policy impacts at national and international levels.
Presenting the story of universities working together in the era after the Cultural Revolution, Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation is a unique account of partnerships in knowledge production and application and their resulting impacts.
Details
384 Pages, 6 x 9
2 tables, 6 figures
ISBN 9780773547308
July 2016
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
Ruth Hayhoe is professor of comparative higher education at the University of Toronto.
Julia Pan is a research associate at OISE, University of Toronto.
Qiang Zha is associate professor of education at York University.
Julia Pan is a research associate at OISE, University of Toronto.
Qiang Zha is associate professor of education at York University.
Contents
Tables and Figures ix
Note on Chinese and Western Name Order xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Transforming Canada-China
Educational Cooperation:
Significant Legacies and Future Challenges 3
Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan, and Qiang Zha
PART ONE THE POLITICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL
CONTEXT OF CHANGE
2 Canada-China
Relations and the Evolving Role of Universities:
Toward Partnerships 2.0 35
Paul Evans
3 University Linkages Past and Future: As Seen from a Diplomatic
Perspective 54
Fred Bild
PART TWO MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND CHINA'S
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
4 Transforming Canada-China
Educational Cooperation:
Legacies and Future Challenges in Management Education 79
Rolf Mirus
5 The Impact of Cross-Cultural
Experience on Academic
Leadership from Individual and Process Perspectives 102
Xi Youmin, Zhang Xiaojun, Zhang Xiaofeng, Ni Jie, and Li Huaizu
6 The Case Study Legacy of Ivey’s Early Linkages in China 125
Paul W. Beamish
Part three Collaboration in Engineering
and Environment
7 Canada-China
Collaboration in Engineering Education
and Its Societal Influences 141
Li Chongan, Lü Shunjing, and Yao Ling
8 Impacts of Canada-China
Environmental Research 167
Jing M. Chen, Joseph Whitney, and Julia Pan
9 Society, Economy, and Environment: Minorities in the
Collaboration between China and Canada 190
Jan W. Walls
PART FOUR EDUCATION AND EQUITY
10 The Educational Dimension of China’s Transformation: From the
Perspective of the Canada-China
University Linkage Projects 211
Qiang Zha and Ruth Hayhoe
11 Nurturing a Leadership Cohort for Chinese Faculties
of Education 230
Qiang Haiyan and Wang Jiayi
12 Sino-Canadian
Legal Partnerships in Law and Education:
Genesis, Groundwork, and Growth 254
Guy Lefebvre, Marie-Claude Rigaud, and Elizabeth Steyn
13 Gender and Development in CIDA’s Programs: A Reflection
on the Doing of Feminist Collaboration 275
Ping-chun Hsiung
14 Closing the Circle: Reflections on Past and Future Partnerships
across the Disciplines 297
Ruth Hayhoe and Christy Hayhoe
References 311
Contributors 329
Index 339
Tables and Figures ix
Note on Chinese and Western Name Order xi
Abbreviations xiii
1 Transforming Canada-China
Educational Cooperation:
Significant Legacies and Future Challenges 3
Ruth Hayhoe, Julia Pan, and Qiang Zha
PART ONE THE POLITICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL
CONTEXT OF CHANGE
2 Canada-China
Relations and the Evolving Role of Universities:
Toward Partnerships 2.0 35
Paul Evans
3 University Linkages Past and Future: As Seen from a Diplomatic
Perspective 54
Fred Bild
PART TWO MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND CHINA'S
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
4 Transforming Canada-China
Educational Cooperation:
Legacies and Future Challenges in Management Education 79
Rolf Mirus
5 The Impact of Cross-Cultural
Experience on Academic
Leadership from Individual and Process Perspectives 102
Xi Youmin, Zhang Xiaojun, Zhang Xiaofeng, Ni Jie, and Li Huaizu
6 The Case Study Legacy of Ivey’s Early Linkages in China 125
Paul W. Beamish
Part three Collaboration in Engineering
and Environment
7 Canada-China
Collaboration in Engineering Education
and Its Societal Influences 141
Li Chongan, Lü Shunjing, and Yao Ling
8 Impacts of Canada-China
Environmental Research 167
Jing M. Chen, Joseph Whitney, and Julia Pan
9 Society, Economy, and Environment: Minorities in the
Collaboration between China and Canada 190
Jan W. Walls
PART FOUR EDUCATION AND EQUITY
10 The Educational Dimension of China’s Transformation: From the
Perspective of the Canada-China
University Linkage Projects 211
Qiang Zha and Ruth Hayhoe
11 Nurturing a Leadership Cohort for Chinese Faculties
of Education 230
Qiang Haiyan and Wang Jiayi
12 Sino-Canadian
Legal Partnerships in Law and Education:
Genesis, Groundwork, and Growth 254
Guy Lefebvre, Marie-Claude Rigaud, and Elizabeth Steyn
13 Gender and Development in CIDA’s Programs: A Reflection
on the Doing of Feminist Collaboration 275
Ping-chun Hsiung
14 Closing the Circle: Reflections on Past and Future Partnerships
across the Disciplines 297
Ruth Hayhoe and Christy Hayhoe
References 311
Contributors 329
Index 339
