A world-class university in China? The case of Tsinghua

Higher Education

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 645-666

  Yang, Rui ^a   Welch, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Higher education; Tsinghua University; World class universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859428531     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9465-4     Document Type: Article

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