"Su-Yan Pan has given a beautifully textured interpretive understanding of one of China's most influential universities. She has challenged dominant assumptions of both modernization and dependency theories in the international literature, and analyzes th

"The saga of Tsinghua University is, in many ways, the story of Chinese higher education. Su-Yan Pan has provided us with a nuanced analysis of Tsinghua's development through the lens of the struggle for autonomy. This case study teaches us much about the

Su-Yan Pan is a research assistant professor in the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include higher education and social change, education policy and legislation, and China education policy studies.