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ERIC Number: EJ536501
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-0068
Fortress State, Cultural Continuities and Economic Change: Higher Education in Mainland China and Taiwan.
Law, Wing-Wah
Comparative Education, v32 n3 p377-93 Nov 1996
Analyzes the role of higher education in China and Taiwan as an agent of both political socialization and economic modernization in the context of economic and social transformations, 1949-95. Examines how cultural traditions, a national belief system, nation building, and foreign relations help maintain a 200-year-old tension between modernization and cultural preservation. Contains 76 references. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Education, Cultural Maintenance, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Ideology, International Educational Exchange, Modernization, Political Socialization, Role of Education
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: China; National Identity; Taiwan