The aim of this study attempts to find why a Western-style education in China has done little to inculcate revolutionary movements. Having taught in the the first foreign university to open in China, the author realized exposure to western-style university education in China does not arouse democratic aspirations among students because Communist Party control remains surprisingly tight.
This study is based on the the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), which is the first foreign university to open in China and is part of The University of Nottingham with ranking in the top 1% of all universities worldwide. In this particular school, Onsman and Cameron tried to study if the Chinese students in UNNC show a greater inclination to …show more content…
As far as I can see, the country stays close to the bottom globally on all significant human rights indexes because of myriad human rights violations. These violations include legally baseless detention, torture and even murder of individuals who challenge the Chinese Communist Party. Likewise, the government doesn’t even make a pretense of holding national elections and punishes individuals who openly call for multiparty rule. The press is intensely censored and the Internet is blocked. Top leaders are unconstrained by the standard of law. In the past, United States and other Western countries criticized the limits of democracy in China frequently, but now, as the these countries work to increase trade with China 's lucrative markets, they are paying more attention to business than human rights and …show more content…
As hundreds of thousands of Chinese students travel abroad to attend university in western democracies, they will start to embrace more liberal values. Although as Onsman and Cameron claimed they are taught to be patriotic and the vast majority of them are, it is also common to hear young students make the distinction between government and country, party and country, and so on, and they are learning to think critically about exactly how to be patriotic. Moreover, young people nowadays are exposed to a much wider variety of information sources and forming their worldviews accordingly. The fast development in social networking is connecting young people to one another in ways that would have been impossible previously, helping them express their political concerns to mass audiences, the force of mass enough to change China 's political
This study is based on the the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), which is the first foreign university to open in China and is part of The University of Nottingham with ranking in the top 1% of all universities worldwide. In this particular school, Onsman and Cameron tried to study if the Chinese students in UNNC show a greater inclination to …show more content…
As far as I can see, the country stays close to the bottom globally on all significant human rights indexes because of myriad human rights violations. These violations include legally baseless detention, torture and even murder of individuals who challenge the Chinese Communist Party. Likewise, the government doesn’t even make a pretense of holding national elections and punishes individuals who openly call for multiparty rule. The press is intensely censored and the Internet is blocked. Top leaders are unconstrained by the standard of law. In the past, United States and other Western countries criticized the limits of democracy in China frequently, but now, as the these countries work to increase trade with China 's lucrative markets, they are paying more attention to business than human rights and …show more content…
As hundreds of thousands of Chinese students travel abroad to attend university in western democracies, they will start to embrace more liberal values. Although as Onsman and Cameron claimed they are taught to be patriotic and the vast majority of them are, it is also common to hear young students make the distinction between government and country, party and country, and so on, and they are learning to think critically about exactly how to be patriotic. Moreover, young people nowadays are exposed to a much wider variety of information sources and forming their worldviews accordingly. The fast development in social networking is connecting young people to one another in ways that would have been impossible previously, helping them express their political concerns to mass audiences, the force of mass enough to change China 's political