Officials are nervous that foreign professors and their textbooks might spread heretical views
Since Xi Jinping took over as China’s leader in 2012, he has tightened controls over university education. Several liberal scholars have been dismissed. Lecturers have been ordered to stop using imported textbooks that are deemed to promote Western values. Universities have been told to become “strongholds of the Communist Party’s leadership”. Under Mr Xi, few students have dared to stage protests.
Compared with enrolment in the rest of China’s university system, the number of students in foreign-run programmes is small: fewer than 600,000, according to state media, or less than 2% of the total number of students in China. But that does not stop the party from worrying.
But the party is getting twitchy. In 2020 Chongqing University of Education published its own guidelines for implementing the central government’s directive. They clearly reflected the mood in Beijing. The university instructed that Chinese teachers and students in joint-venture arrangements should “consciously resist corrosion by all kinds of erroneous Western thoughts and decadent ideas”.
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