Borrowing and Development (A Study of Sino-Soviet Educational Relations 1949-1976)

Author: Li Tao
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book is an academic work that systematically studies the educational relationship between China and the Soviet Union from 1949 to 1976. As is well known, during the nearly 30 years from the founding of the People's Republic of China to 1976, Soviet education had a broad and profound impact on Chinese education. The book examines this influence against the backdrop of the international and domestic environments of the 1950s and 1960s, offering its own analysis and evaluation of the successes and failures of Sino-Soviet educational exchanges from the perspective of global educational exchange. Using a wealth of handheld materials, the book comprehensively presents the winding yet highly enlightening lessons learned from the educational exchanges between the two socialist giants.
The 21st century is an era of the knowledge economy. Standing at the dawn of a new century where the knowledge economy is already emerging, we find that education and the knowledge economy are so closely intertwined. In the age of the knowledge economy, the economic development of a country, a nation, or a region, as well as social progress, the growth of wealth, and the enhancement of strength will increasingly depend on or rely on the level of knowledge production and the ability to innovate. Meanwhile, the production, accumulation, and dissemination of knowledge, as well as technological advancement and renewal, will all directly depend on the development of education itself. Without the development of education and technological innovation, the knowledge economy would lose its true substance.
Facing the demands of the knowledge economy era and the challenges it brings, the international community has attached great importance to the development and progress of education in various regions, even elevating it to the status of a core component of the overall strategy for societal development.