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Foreign Language/Literature as Human and Social Sciences in the Chinese Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2016

Zongxin Feng
Zongxin Feng*
Affiliation:
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. E-mail: zxfeng@tsinghua.edu.cn
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Abstract

Globalization has accelerated international and intercultural exchange in almost all aspects of life and every discipline of study has to take a global perspective for its development. This paper discusses some current issues in China’s ‘foreign language/literature’ sector, at the tertiary level of human and social sciences, and it does so in terms of localized concepts and diverse fields of study, administrative intervention, institutional organization, professional recognition, academic dilemmas, and problems and prospects of development in view of the international context of sociocultural globalization.

Type
Tsinghua–Academia Europaea Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences, Globalization and China
Information
European Review , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 335 - 346
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2016 

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