Wang Gungwu, educator & scholar
By: Wang Gungwu ; editors, Zheng Yongnian, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Phua Kok Khoo, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore
Contributors: Zheng, Yongnian, editor of compilation; Phua, K. K., editor of compilation
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789814436625
Subjects: Educational change; Higher Education
Other titles: Wang Gungwu, educator and scholar
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The university and the community; title: National education and the scientific tradition; title: Who should pay for universities?; title: A very peculiar business; title: The university as a global institution; title: The Asian renaissance; title: Cities light torch of excellence; title: Lessons closer to home; title: The Asia-Pacific: region and universalism in higher education; title: The modern university in Australia and Asia; title: Social science and Asia; title: Shifting paradigms and Asian perspectives: implications for research and teaching; title: The classics and the East Asian entrepreneur; title: Universities and modernity for Asia; title: New interest in old powers; title: Change and adaptation: NUS at 100; title: The Chinese pursuit of higher education; title: New university, three generations: China, Malaya, Singapore 1949-2007; title: Versailles' Chinese legacy; title: Far East looks to the future; title: You've come a long way; title: Academic blind spot in Asia; title: English rules the waves; title: Rise of Anglo-Chinese.