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Selected Publication

​Journal article (in Chinese if noted):

  • Yang, L. (2021). Social equity and equity in higher education: A comparison of the liberal Anglo- American and Chinese political cultures. International Journal of Educational Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102403.

  • Marginson, S.* & Yang, L. (2021). Individual and collective outcomes of higher education: A comparison of Anglo-American and Chinese approaches. Globalisation, Societies and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1932436

  • Marini, G. & Yang, L.* (2021). Globally-bred Chinese Talents returning home: An analysis of a reverse brain-drain flagship policy. Science and Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab021 

  • Yang, L., Yang, J. & Wang, C.* (2021). The research-intensive university in a glonacal higher education system: The creation of the world-class university in China. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2021.1884512.

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  • Zhang, W., Wang, Y., Yang, L.*, Wang, C.* (2020). ‘Suspending classes without stopping learning’: China's education emergency management policy in the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(3), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13030055.

  • Wang, C., Yang, L. & Yang, J. (2020). An Evaluation of the Universities’Efficacy of the“Excellence Initiative” in Germany: Based on the Method of PSM-DID. Chinese Higher Education. (1), 5-11. DOI:10.16298/j.cnki.1004-3667.2020.01.02 (in Chinese).

  • Yang, L. & Wang, D (2018). Provincial Co-ordination Effect of Postgraduate Education in China--Based on a Revised IPA Analysis. Academic Degrees & Graduate Education. (1), 49-55. (in Chinese)

  • Yang, L. (2016). Why does John Come to China? -- A Narrative Study of Reasons Why Excellent American Students Come to China. Education Research Monthly. (2), 74-81. (in Chinese)

  • Wang, D. & Yang, L. (2017). Unified Standards and Standardized Management: the New Stage of Part-time Postgraduate Education in China. Chinese Postgraduates. 1, 003. (in Chinese)

  • Yuan, B. & Yang, L. (2016). Educational Think Tank Studies from Literature: An Urgent Pioneering Field. Research in Higher Education of Engineering. (2), 40-47. (in Chinese)

  • Wang D. & Yang, L. (2016). Journey and Trend of Graduate Education Worldwide. Academic Degrees & Graduate Education. (3), 73-77. (in Chinese)

  • Yuan, B. & Hu, X. & Yang, L. (2015). Goal and Path: Content Analysis on the Training Program of Professional Degree. Research in Higher Education of Engineering. (5), 136-143. (in Chinese)

Book chapter

  • Yang, L. (forthcoming). A Chinese approach to global public goods in higher education: The idea of tianxia weigong (all under heaven belongs to/is for all). In Simon Marginson & Xin Xu (Eds). Changing Higher Education in East Asia. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

  • Marginson, S. & Yang, L. (forthcoming). Higher education and public good in East and West. In Pam Fredman, & Remus Pricopie (Eds). International Higher Education Cooperation through the International Association of Universities. Palgrave McMillan.

  • Marginson, S. & Yang, L. (2020). China meets Anglo-America on the New Silk Road: A comparison of state, society, self, and higher education. In Marijk C. van der Wende, William C. Kirby, Nian Cai LIU, & Simon Marginson (Eds). China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities across Eurasia. Oxford University Press. [forthcoming]

Peer-reviewed published working paper

Book review

  • Yang, L. (2018). Christopher J. Johnstone and Li Li Ji (eds.): The rise of China-U.S. international cooperation in higher education: views from the field. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-018-0327-1.

Selected Conference /Symposium /Seminar

  • Lili Yang (Feb, 2021). Rethinking global common goods in higher education through the Chinese concept of tianxia weigong. Centre for Global Higher Education Webinar. (Invited talk)

  • Thomas Brotherhood, Lili Yang, Maia Chankseliani (Sep, 2020). Covid-19 and higher education: Implications for equity, and a return to the common good. Online flipped conference themed ‘Building the post-pandemic university’. Cambridge University (Conference oral presentation)

  • Lili Yang (Jun, 2020). Similarities and differences between notions of ‘public’ in the Chinese and liberal Anglo-American traditions, and the implications for higher education. A panel discussion of ‘CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar: Crossing international boundaries’, Centre for Global Higher Education Webinar. (Invited talk)

  • Lili Yang (Aug, 2019). Views on modernity and student experience. The New Silk Road Summer School, Utrecht, the Netherlands. (Invited lecture for the Summer School)

  • Lili Yang (Mar, 2019). Collectivism in shaping Chinese higher education: Higher education and evolving interpretations of the collective.  Lingnan-Oxford Symposium "Expansion of higher education in China for two decades: critical reflections from comparative perspectives", Oxford, the UK. (Invited talk)

  • Lili Yang (Nov, 2018). Chinese traditional interpretations of academic freedom and institutional autonomy, and implications in contemporary higher education. A panel discussion of "What do political developments in China mean for university autonomy and academic freedom?" as the Centre for Global Higher Education Seminar 95, Oxford, the UK. (Invited talk)

 

  • Lili Yang (Nov, 2018). China as a hybrid of civilizational state and nation-state: manifestations in the Belt and Road Initiative. Paper presented at the Transnational Higher Education and the China Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Manchester, the UK.

 

  • Lili Yang (Oct, 2018). Chinese - Western narratives and the multiple modernity paradigm.The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe, Oxford, the UK. (Invited talk)

 

  • Lili Yang (April, 2018). Higher Education’s Public Good Contributions in Anglo-American and Sinic traditions. Paper presented at the Lingnan University-Peking University Education Forum, Hong Kong.

 

  • Lili Yang (June 2017). Public Higher Learning in Imperial China. A seminar given as the Centre for Global Higher Education Seminar 54, London, the UK. (Invited talk)

 

  • Lili Yang, Wenqin Shen, Yuzhuo Cai* (August 2016). The Use of Institutional Theory in Comparative Education. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), Beijing, China.

 

  • Ping Chen, Lili Yang* (March 2016). Research Productivity of Chinese Overseas Post-doctoral Researchers—A Comparison between Domestic PhD Holders and Their Overseas Counterparts. Paper posted at the Annual Conference of Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) San Antonio, the US.

 

  • Lili Yang (March 2016). Why does John Come to China? -- A Narrative Study of Reasons Why Excellent American Students Come to China. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Toronto, Canada.

Scholarship Impact

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