By Evelyn T. Y. Chan, Michael O'Sullivan
ISBN-10: 9811022658
ISBN-13: 9789811022654
ISBN-10: 9811022674
ISBN-13: 9789811022678
This e-book brings jointly the views of eminent and rising students on modern concerns correct to the perform, pedagogy and institutionalization of the arts within the 3 chinese language contexts of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. It addresses the necessity to examine how humanities discussions, frequently completely drawn from, and down to earth in, western contexts, are this present day being performed out in those 3 locations. the arts in modern chinese language contexts can have diverse social and pedagogical roles, and a attention of them will permit humans to reasonable, and maybe even refute, claims made within the contemporary (re)readings of the arts. As Asian universities upward push within the worldwide scores and as east-west collage collaborations and partnerships develop into extra universal, it can be crucial that the character, perform and institutionalization of the arts in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China are explored and defined for English readers. Exploring new views bobbing up from an exam of the arts in those locations, this quantity goals neither to set up a place of polarity, which might pit western websites opposed to chinese language ones, nor to argue for common sameness. really, the target is to discover nuanced correspondences and changes among those a number of backgrounds, in order that there's a better knowing of the specificities of chinese language contexts. this can support shed mild not just at the contexts in query, but in addition possibly on the right way to rearticulate the significance of the arts commonly, growing an intercultural discussion all in favour of the arts. because the international college strives to maneuver the various traditions of studying nearer jointly via foreign ratings, rubrics, and shared study agendas, it is necessary that we discover those destinations of capability cultural exchange.
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Hong Kong does, however, practice a somewhat ruthless streaming system whereby students at age 12 are given a grade based on exam performance that then decides the ‘banding’ they take with them into secondary school. The school they enter largely decides how well they will do at the HKDSE exams and in particular in the English and Chinese exams which are compulsory exams for university admission. 50 % of students fail these English and Chinese exams and thus cannot enter the public universities.
However, as G. Postiglione reminds us, “American higher education makes a direct link between liberal-arts education and the democratic process” but “[f]or China, liberal-arts education is a means to strengthen international competitiveness and domestic social harmony” (2013). Despite the oversights in such readings, the practices implicit to a liberal education are traditionally regarded as bound up with the political system of the community in which they are practiced. In other words, as Richard Rorty puts it, when people on the “political right” in the U.
Stephen Chan describes the Umbrella Movement as “the unexpected, massive collective action of civil disobedience against the status quo (read: authority and “reality”) that, by rough estimation, a million people have taken part in”; it was “a 79-day occupy action in three main urban areas of Hong Kong [that] shocked the world, the Beijing and Hong Kong authorities, and last but not least the people of Hong Kong themselves” (2015, 328). Chan explains how the political climate in Hong Kong shapes the institutions of education and thus the practice of the humanities: “So, the status quo is to stay, and reinforcement would only be made to scrutinise and restrict the subordinate or the powerless, while down-playing such issues as academic freedom, institutional autonomy, cultural rights, and social inequality in higher education.