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Wang Gungwu, educator & scholar /

Title
Wang Gungwu, educator & scholar / Wang Gungwu ; editors, Zheng Yongnian, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Phua Kok Khoo, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore.
Author
Wang, Gungwu,
Publication
Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub., c2013.

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xiv, 411 p. : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
  • Educator & scholar
  • Wang Gungwu, educator and scholar
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
The university and the community -- National education and the scientific tradition -- Who should pay for universities? -- A very peculiar business -- The university as a global institution -- The Asian renaissance -- Cities light torch of excellence -- Lessons closer to home -- The Asia-Pacific: region and universalism in higher education -- The modern university in Australia and Asia -- Social science and Asia -- Shifting paradigms and Asian perspectives: implications for research and teaching -- The classics and the East Asian entrepreneur -- Universities and modernity for Asia -- New interest in old powers -- Change and adaptation: NUS at 100 -- The Chinese pursuit of higher education -- New university, three generations: China, Malaya, Singapore 1949-2007 -- Versailles' Chinese legacy -- Far East looks to the future -- You've come a long way -- Academic blind spot in Asia -- English rules the waves -- Rise of Anglo-Chinese.
ISBN
  • 9789814436625
  • 9814436623
LCCN
2012035456
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library