AbstractAcknowledgementsDeclarationList of TablesIntroduction1. Nationalism and the Open Door Policy: Chinese Higher Education 1840s-1990s2. Tensions Between the Global and the Local: A Comparative Illustration of Two Reorganisations of China's Higher Education in the 1950s and 1990s3. Globalisation: A Context of Inequality and Scarcity4. Internationalisation: Its Meanings, Rationales and Implications5. Implementing Internationalisation: An Overall Picture of Guangzhou Universities6. Internationalised while Provincialised? A Case Study of South China Normal Univeristy7. Openness and Reform as Dynamics for Development: The Case of South China University of Technology8.

Zhongshan University Case Study: Some Analyses of a Comprehensive University9. Advantages or Disadvantages: Important issues for Internationalisation of China's Higher Education10. Conclusions and Future DirectionsAppendix One: Teachers/Researchers Questionnaire FormAppendix Two: Institutional Administrators Questionnaire FormAppendix Three: Interviews Conducting in Guanghou and Hong KongAppendix Four: Interview ScheduleBibliography.