Globalisation, transnational academic mobility and the Chinese knowledge diaspora: An Australian case study

Discourse

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 593-607

  Yang, Rui ^a   Welch, Anthony R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic mobility; China; Globalisation; Higher education; Knowledge diaspora; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859425731     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2010.516940     Document Type: Article

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