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Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education

Globalization and Universities in China and the World

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Authors:
  1. Jian Li

    1. China Institute of Education and Social Development Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  • Proposes and conceptualizes a new concept of soft power in education
  • Provides a unique viewpoint to analyze the globalization of higher education
  • Clarifies the differences and similarities between globalization and internationalization of higher education

Part of the book series: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education (PRRE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  4. Soft Power Conversion Model of Chinese Higher Education: Interviews of Chinese Experts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. Soft Power of Chinese Higher Education: Interviews with Experts

      • Jian Li
      Pages 213-251
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About this book

This book examines the globalization trends in higher education from an international political science perspective, using Nye’s theory of soft power to explore the rationale behind it. It focuses on conceptualizing the Soft Power Conversion Model of Higher Education, which is embedded in the globalization of higher education, and analyzes the globalization of Chinese higher education reform.

Also, this book provides innovative and unique viewpoints on conceptualizing and mapping the globalization and internationalization of higher education, especially for current Chinese higher education (1949-2016). It discusses and illustrates cutting-edge concepts of global higher education, such as global learning, global competency, and global citizenship and refines them in the conceptualized soft power conversion model of higher education.


This book reports on and enriches the theoretical concept of global education, and provides practical insights into global learning, global citizenship and global competency for Chinese undergraduate students.

Authors and Affiliations

  • China Institute of Education and Social Development Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Jian Li

About the author

​Jian Li is an assistant professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development at Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Dr. Li’s general area of scholarship is the assessment of global competency and global learning within higher education institutions, an area in which she has pursued four themes: higher education policy and management; undergraduate students’ global learning performance assessment; faculty global perspective within higher education; and global learning and development as a framework for institutional research. Dr. Li has published over 20 articles and book chapters, and delivered over 30 workshops and seminars and more than 10 keynote, peer-reviewed and invited presentations throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conceptualizing Soft Power of Higher Education

  • Book Subtitle: Globalization and Universities in China and the World

  • Authors: Jian Li

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0641-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0640-2Published: 28 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4469-5Published: 30 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0641-9Published: 19 September 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2366-1658

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-1666

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education

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