Guarding Against the Threat of a Westernising Education: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Saudi Cultural Security Discourses and Practices Towards Overseas Study

Yan, Xiu-Tian; Al-Sudairi, Mohammed Turki

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“…Questions about extraterritorial control become especially salient as China’s higher education sector internationalizes with the aims of not only bolstering technical skills and intellectual perspectives through international cooperation but also to be “an important vehicle to defend and promote the Party State’s interests and ideology abroad” (Burnay and Pils 2022, 1767). Using predeparture sessions, periodic monitoring and reporting by Chinese Students and Scholars Association branches, collaboration with PRC consulates, and political orientation sessions for academic hires who return from abroad, Chinese authorities attempt to mitigate the putative impact of liberal socio-political ideas learned abroad (Yan and Alsudairi 2021). Awardees of China Scholarship Council funding apparently pledge to “consciously safeguard the honor of the motherland, [and] obey the guidance and management of embassies (consulates) abroad” (Felden 2023).…”

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Higher Education Partnerships with China: US and European Responses to a Changing Context

Dukalskis

2023

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Engaging with higher education institutions from the People’s Republic of China (China or the PRC) raises difficult tensions for universities in liberal democratic contexts. Universities in China are overseen by a political party that routinely silences dissent and does not respect principles of academic freedom in the social sciences and humanities. For decades in the post–Mao era, this tension remained relatively muted outside of the PRC, but it has gained newfound significance as China’s power and assertiveness have grown globally.

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Higher Education Partnerships with China: US and European Responses to a Changing Context

Dukalskis

2023

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“…In addition, both Saudi Arabia and China are keen to preserve forms of "cultural security." Xiaojun and Alsudairi (2021) argue that the two countries share a national security discourse, potentially opening the door for future cooperation in the realm of cultural security as well. Shahbazov (2021) argues that a primary reason for Beijing's success in the Gulf states relates to the lack of political obligations imposed by 8.…”

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Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World

Blaydes¹,

Hamzawy²,

Sallam³

2022

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Preface | xix of surveillance and policing. Thus, from March onwards in 2020, largescale protest activities stopped in many states.However, this temporary halt in what had been a resurgent crescendo of activism will not last. In many countries, the coronavirus crisis exposed severe deficits of governance in terms of income inequality, underachieving educational systems, and overloaded healthcare facilities. Indeed, it was partly because many rulers had such little excess infrastructural capacity that their lockdowns were so strict and harsh, for even a minor uptick in infections and deaths would have overwhelmed their social service provisions. The crisis has also grounded the regional economy. Key sectors required by all but the richest oil-exporting economies, such as worker remittances, tourism receipts, and informal businesses, suffered devastating immobility. Even the most optimistic estimates suggest it will take another one to two years for economic growth to return to pre-pandemic levels.Once the pandemic subsides, popular forces will again struggle toward familiar goals regarding social justice, economic fairness, and political rights. New moments of reckoning loom. When that transpires, ruling elites must have better answers than instructing their societies to wait for better circumstances, or to warn about the menace of violence and conflict should their authoritarian grasp upon power dissolve. These represent old excuses that no longer hold water.The resulting process of change that awaits will be protracted, un predictable, and sometimes painful. But it will nonetheless still be one of change, not continuity. As this volume makes clear, history continues to rewrite itself in the Middle East and North Africa.1. We use this term critically and with recognition of its limitations. See, for example, Gelvin (2012,(32)(33).

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“…A recent journal article that examines a shared sense of unease towards Western education demonstrates a different kind of educational tie between China and Saudi Arabia (Yan and Alsudairi 2021). Despite the two states' political differences, both are major sources of international students 40 ASIA-CHINA KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS: STATE OF THE FIELD in the West in the post-Cold War era.…”

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Asia-China Knowledge Networks: State of the Field

Zheng¹,

Yang²,

Elsherif³

2022

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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent, international, nonprofit organization founded in 1923. It fosters innovative research, nurtures new generations of social scientists, deepens how inquiry is practiced within and across disciplines, and mobilizes necessary knowledge on important public issues. For nearly 100 years the SSRC has coordinated the research, policy, and philanthropic communities in the pursuit of evidence-based policies to promote human well-being, emerging as both a pivotal force in the academy and a respected contributor to the public good. The SSRC is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. We work with practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and related professions. We build interdisciplinary and international networks, working with partners around the world to link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and institutional capacities for learning, and enhance public access to information.

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Guarding Against the Threat of a Westernising Education: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Saudi Cultural Security Discourses and Practices Towards Overseas Study

Cited by 5 publications

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Higher Education Partnerships with China: US and European Responses to a Changing Context

Higher Education Partnerships with China: US and European Responses to a Changing Context

Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World

Asia-China Knowledge Networks: State of the Field

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