Conceptualizing and Contextualizing Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Conceptualizing Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction on Ontological Dimension of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 3-15

   3. Introduction on Epistemological Dimension of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 17-21

   4. Conceptualizing Ontological-Epistemological Dimension Model of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 23-26

3. Contextualizing Ontological–Epistemological Dimension Model of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristic

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Epistemological Dimension Model of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: Concept, Context, and Practice

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 29-43

   3. Domain Ontological Dimension of Implementing Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: Topic-Oriented Policy Perspective

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 45-62

   4. Upper Ontological Dimension of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: Concept-Oriented Ideological System

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 63-73

   5. Knowledge-Based Epistemological Dimension of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: Talent Cultivation

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 75-117

   6. Knowledge-Based Epistemological Dimension of Higher Education with Chinese Characteristics: Faculty Development, Academic Innovation, and Leadership

      • Jian Li, Xudong Zhu

      Pages 119-154

4. Back Matter

   Pages 155-158

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This book provides a fresh and unique overview of the modernization and internationalization of Chinese higher education, focusing on Chinese higher education from 1949 to 2018. It presents the Ontological Positivism Model (Conceptualization-Explicit-Formal-Share), concentrating on concepts of Chinese higher education.


The book is intended for scholars and researchers in the field of comparative higher education, administrators and stakeholders in education management and graduate students majoring in higher education.

• Chinese Characteristic Higher Education
• Chinese Education Strategy
• Chinese Education Leadership
• Global Higher Education
• Chinese Faculty Development
• Chinese Talent Cultivation
• Globalization of Higher Education
• Internationalization of Higher Education
• Chinese Higher Education
• Chinese Education

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

  Jian Li

• Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

  Xudong Zhu

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.

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