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Globalization has affected China’s social and economic system, resulting in the shift from the centralized planned economy to market-oriented socialism (Guo et al., 2013; Huang, 2008). Since the reform and opening-up policy initiated in 1978, and especially when China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, Chinese higher education has witnessed “an all-dimensional and multi-tiered opening-up pattern” and actively engaged with the world (Xu & Yue, 2013, p. 200).
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Wang, T. (2016). Learning in an Unfamiliar Culture. In: Guo, S., Guo, Y. (eds) Spotlight on China. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-669-9_13
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