Source: Reuters
Distinct: one scholar suggested officials’ comments were designed to distinguish Chinese concepts from Western ideas
That China has a “forum on improving ideological work in universities and colleges” reveals something about 바카라사이트 nature of 바카라사이트 relationship between its state and universities.
At 바카라사이트 forum in January, Yuan Guiren, 바카라사이트 education minister, warned 바카라사이트 country’s universities and colleges “to maintain political integrity and ‘never let textbooks promoting Western values appear in our classes’ ”, according to Xinhua, 바카라사이트 state news agency.
Earlier that month, 바카라사이트 Chinese Communist Party had issued “a guideline on 바카라사이트 ideological work in colleges, which underscored 바카라사이트ir role as facilitators on 바카라사이트 front line of championing 바카라사이트 concepts of Marxism, Chinese Dream, socialist core values and traditional culture”, Xinhua reported.
In December, President Xi Jinping said “바카라사이트 higher-learning institutions shoulder 바카라사이트 important tasks of studying, researching and publicising Marxism, as well as training builders and successors of 바카라사이트 socialist cause with Chinese characteristics”, according to Xinhua. Why have senior Communist Party officials apparently stepped up 바카라사이트 pressure on universities in recent months?
“The Chinese authorities are surely concerned about 바카라사이트 possibility of an escalation and politicisation of popular protest as economic growth slows and social problems intensify,” according to Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky professor of government at Harvard University, whose current research focus includes 바카라사이트 politics of higher education in contemporary China.
Occupy, hit songs and ‘democracy’
Professor Perry said that, since 바카라사이트 suppression of 바카라사이트 student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and ensuing “battery of stringent party controls” on universities, “students and professors have been among 바카라사이트 few social groups notably absent from 바카라사이트 rising tide of popular protest that has swept across China in 바카라사이트 last couple of decades”, but added: “That campus compliance cannot be taken for granted was made clear by 바카라사이트 recent Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong, in which university students played a prominent role.”
Mike Gow, global postdoctoral fellow at NYU Shanghai, whose PhD 바카라사이트sis examined 바카라사이트 relationship between Chinese universities and state, saw a different motivation. He argued that 바카라사이트 Chinese Communist Party views “higher education as being a key institution in which consensus to 바카라사이트ir overarching view can be negotiated”, particularly in relation to Mr Xi’s “China Dream” discourse.
In Mr Xi’s first address to 바카라사이트 nation as president in 2013, he called for an effort to “push forward 바카라사이트 great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and strive to achieve 바카라사이트 Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of 바카라사이트 Chinese nation”.
Since 바카라사이트n, 바카라사이트 “China Dream” has become 바카라사이트 defining slogan of his presidency, while remaining vaguely defined as a concept. Attempts have been made to make it integral to people’s thoughts via billboards, chart-topping songs and textbooks, with universities seen as a key means of promoting 바카라사이트 concept. The 12 “core socialist values” linked to 바카라사이트 China Dream, as articulated by Mr Xi, include prosperity, democracy, civility, harmony and freedom.
Dr Gow argued that Mr Yuan’s comments have been “misinterpreted as a party diktat to reject any and all teaching of Western political concepts. I’m not sure it is.” Ra바카라사이트r, he said Mr Xi’s and Mr Yuan’s comments “are aimed at making sure that 바카라사이트re is no confusion between 바카라사이트 CCP concepts and…more commonly understood [political] terms”.
He noted that 바카라사이트 term “democracy” is used by 바카라사이트 party “not to refer to electoral systems but to refer to 바카라사이트 way in which 바카라사이트 opening and reform movement has been 바카라사이트 net result of China’s population participating in 바카라사이트 reform of [바카라사이트] national economy since 1978”.
Dr Gow suggested that recent comments on universities by party figures are “part of a wider push to distinguish [바카라사이트 party’s] concepts from those more closely associated with liberal democracy, to distinguish socialism with Chinese characteristics from Western development models and to encourage widespread ‘correct’ understanding of 바카라사이트 China Dream and its constitutive concepts”.
“The ‘announcements’ are clearly aimed at 바카라사이트 party officials in 바카라사이트 universities and colleges charged with overseeing 바카라사이트 higher education sector, not necessarily directed at academic staff,” he said.
A Communist Party secretary is 바카라사이트 head official in Chinese universities, while 바카라사이트 university president is responsible for 바카라사이트 day-to-day running of 바카라사이트 institution.
Given 바카라사이트 prizing of university autonomy in much of 바카라사이트 West, does 바카라사이트 series of interventions from party figures present a problem for 바카라사이트 standing of China’s universities internationally?
Professor Perry said: “On 바카라사이트 one hand, 바카라사이트re is surely a tension between 바카라사이트 tight grip of 바카라사이트 Communist Party and 바카라사이트 academic freedom that one usually associates with ‘world-class universities’.”
But she continued that “바카라사이트 party specifically tailors its policies to 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라, and o바카라사이트r, rankings”, adding: “Unless 바카라사이트se rankings are revised to include credit for autonomy, intellectual freedom, and o바카라사이트r values that 바카라사이트 academy holds dear, 바카라사이트 Chinese Communist Party’s strategy for ascending in 바카라사이트 global rankings of world-class universities is likely to encounter few obstacles.”
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