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research collaboration. With rich experiences in different cultures and intellectual traditions, such
individuals are a particularly important asset in an era of intensified globalization, and thus deserve
special consideration at both institutional and national levels. However, many of the respondents
reported that their qualities had been much undervalued.
YANG, Rui (University of Hong Kong) [CS3.9]
Who Controls the Chinese Mind? Internationalization of Social Science at Fudan University
Recent international studies have shown that the meaning of internationalization, the means to
implement it and the extent of internationalization policies all depend on specific subject matter. The
general situation is that the “hard” sciences usually attain higher levels of internationalization than the
“soft.” Hence development in the “hard” sciences, like engineering, tends to be much more
emphasized, while the humanities and social sciences become under-represented in international
programs, basically due to the varied ideologies, paradigms and discourses inherent in the humanities
and social sciences and the high dependency on language to convey their meanings. In these fields,
domestic considerations are given more weight than in the natural sciences, technology, and medical
sciences. Since reform and opening up, a significant change in China’s scholarly world has been the
upsurge of social sciences. China’s humanities and social sciences scholars have not achieved the
emerging visibility of their natural science and engineering peers in the international community.
While China’s overall representation in the international scientific community has grown rapidly
since reopening itself to the world, few publications produced by Chinese social scientists have
appeared in international citation indices, an assessment that has become increasingly important in the
evaluation of research at the institutional, departmental and individual levels, but has not been
popularly employed as an effective means in China’s social sciences simply because Chinese social
scientists rarely publish internationally. In 1985, for example, Mainland China social scientists had 80
international publications. The number increased to 202 only in 1996. The humanities and social
sciences in China are important to demonstrate who controls the Chinese mind. They are confronted
with an unprecedented global context. The international knowledge network has divided nations into
center, semi-center and periphery. Its function has been substantially strengthened by the exponential
growth of the Internet, and by the fact that English has become a global language. Meanwhile, many
signs indicate that in the 21st century, China’s Open Door policy is going to continue. Under such a
scenario, one urgent task for China is to raise the level of internationalization of its humanities and
social sciences research, as an indicator of China’s intent to integrate with the international scholarly
community. It is high time that we look at the tensions, dilemmas, costs and benefits in the process of
internationalizing Chinese humanities and social sciences. This paper reports my findings from a case
study of Fudan University, one of the most prestigious universities in China with nationally leading
programs in the humanities and social sciences.
YI, Quanyong 易全勇 (University of Hong Kong) [CS2.5]
Hidden Scene: Case Studies Graduate Dormitory Exchanges
隱蔽的光景——研究生寢室交往的個案研究
研究生之間的交往深深地影響著他們的社會生活和個人成長,他們之間的交往不僅可以作為教
育手段,而且作為教育目的統一在研究生的培養過程之中。作爲一個原生態的探索性研究,本
研究主要遵循社會問題——社會事實——社會理論相結合的研究思路,採取質性研究方法,通