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Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in Policymaking (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, J. (2024). Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in Policymaking. China: An International Journal, 22(3), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.56159/chn.2024.a936306

Conceptualising the contemporary Chinese state remains problematic due to its authoritarian attributes, its inextricable Party-state structure and its position within a political system that places emphasis on the normative and discursive aspects of... Read More about Anatomising the Chinese State and Theorising It in Policymaking.

Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China (2024)
Journal Article
Wu, J., & Robertson, S. L. (in press). Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2302829

In this paper we ask: what does ‘the idea’ of the Chinese university mean at the current time, especially when the sector has been shaped by endogenous and exogenous globalising dynamics? We explore this question, drawing on cultural political econom... Read More about Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China.

Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking (2022)
Book Chapter
Wu, J. (2022). Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking. In Theory and Method in Higher Education Research (61-81). (Vol. 8). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2056-375220220000008004

Studying Chinese higher education internationalization policy-making requires paying attention to the political ontology of China's top-designed policy-making system before proceeding to methodological approaches. The ontology is two-fold: a fixed re... Read More about Understanding Policy-Making in an Authoritarian State: An Ontology-Driven Framework for Analyzing Chinese Higher Education Policymaking.