Lili Yang
Lili Yang is an assistant professor at Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong. Previously, she was a PhD researcher and then a postdoctoral researcher at CGHE. Her research interests include higher education, cross-cultural comparison of higher education, and higher education policy. Her forthcoming book is titled ‘Higher Education, State and Society: Comparing the Chinese and Anglo-American Approaches’ (Bloomsbury).
Lili worked as a PhD researcher on the Global Higher Education Engagement Programme of CGHE between 2017 and 2020, and then a postdoctoral researcher of Project 8 of CGHE in 2021. Since 2022, Lili continues to be involved in Project 8 of CGHE as a researcher.
Lili has strong interests in Eastern-Western comparison in higher education, especially how universities are shaped by social, political and educational cultures in Eastern and Western contexts. More broadly, her interests include higher education, cross-cultural comparison of higher education, and higher education policy. Her forthcoming book is titled Higher Education, State and Society: Comparing the Chinese and Anglo-American Approaches (Bloomsbury).
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CGHE publications
- Higher Education, State and Society: Comparing the Chinese and Anglo-American Approaches
- Higher Education and Public Good: Perceptions of Practitioners and Policy Professionals in England
- The public role of higher learning in Imperial China
- The role of higher education in generating ‘public’ and ‘common’ goods: A comparison of Sinic and Anglo-American political cultures
- Higher education and public good in East and West
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- CGHE Conference on ‘The public good role of higher education’
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- The public (good) of higher education: A lexical-based comparison of the Chinese and Anglo-American approaches
- Thinking through tianxia: A new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education
- What are the outcomes of higher education? A cross-cultural dialogue between the Anglo-American and Chinese worlds
- China’s Young Talents Programs. How do returnees perform?
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- Rethinking global common goods in higher education through the Chinese concept of tianxia weigong
- CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar: Crossing international boundaries
- Expansion of higher education in China for two decades: critical reflections from comparative perspectives
- What do political developments in China mean for university autonomy and academic freedom? A panel discussion
- Public higher learning in imperial China
Select recent publications
- Student formation in higher education: a comparison and combination of Confucian xiushen (self-cultivation) and Bildung
Higher Education, 2021 - A crisis of opportunity at English universities: Rethinking higher education through the common good idea
Educational Review, 2021 - Social equity and equity in higher education: A comparison of the liberal Anglo- American and Chinese political cultures.
International Journal of Educational Development, 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, 2021 - China Meets Anglo-America on the New Silk Road
In China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities Across Eurasia. Oxford University Press, 2020 - Research Productivity of Chinese Young Thousand Talents
International Higher Education, 2019