What a great article, jammed packed with practical suggestions. Thank you Zichen Wang
Talking to prospective China students in South Africa, Australia and NZ, the question of lack of internationalised curricula and English-taught programmes has often been raised in those conversations. Subjective but qualitative.
Which leads me to suggest that policy makers should not fail to recognise that there is a large potential cadre of Western oriented, non US students.
英雄不问出处
This subtlety seems overlooked in many of the pieces I read from China policy blogs. The philosophies, cultural attitudes and attitudes of these predominantly English speaking people towards China often vary enormously to those in the US. This sublety is ignored Chinese policy makers and remains largely unkown among the general population.
As per the article, many are scared off because of the lack of facilitatiion of mobile payments for foreigners by methods and platforms they are familiar with.
Even moreso, the lack of convenient internet access to platforms they know and love is the final nail in the coffin.
People to people exchanges are the best vehicle to encourage authentic intercultural communication on the currently rocky road towards to the gates of the biggest, attractive and beguiling walled garden that is currently China.
I agree China should open up its universities to international students. It’s a missed opportunity to boost long-term productivity growth. I would not just focus on US students; students from the Global South have just as much to contribute in terms of domestic economic productivity, and even more in terms of solidifying China’s international relations with the Global South, and eventually diluting China’s dependence on the fickle Western countries.
What a great article, jammed packed with practical suggestions. Thank you Zichen Wang
Talking to prospective China students in South Africa, Australia and NZ, the question of lack of internationalised curricula and English-taught programmes has often been raised in those conversations. Subjective but qualitative.
Which leads me to suggest that policy makers should not fail to recognise that there is a large potential cadre of Western oriented, non US students.
英雄不问出处
This subtlety seems overlooked in many of the pieces I read from China policy blogs. The philosophies, cultural attitudes and attitudes of these predominantly English speaking people towards China often vary enormously to those in the US. This sublety is ignored Chinese policy makers and remains largely unkown among the general population.
As per the article, many are scared off because of the lack of facilitatiion of mobile payments for foreigners by methods and platforms they are familiar with.
Even moreso, the lack of convenient internet access to platforms they know and love is the final nail in the coffin.
People to people exchanges are the best vehicle to encourage authentic intercultural communication on the currently rocky road towards to the gates of the biggest, attractive and beguiling walled garden that is currently China.
I agree China should open up its universities to international students. It’s a missed opportunity to boost long-term productivity growth. I would not just focus on US students; students from the Global South have just as much to contribute in terms of domestic economic productivity, and even more in terms of solidifying China’s international relations with the Global South, and eventually diluting China’s dependence on the fickle Western countries.