Yongling Lu Editor & Author

Ruth Hayhoe is professor and chair of the Higher Education Group, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her teaching and research interests include comparative higher education, international academic relations, higher education in Asia, and dimensions of Chinese education in interaction with the West. She is the author of China’s Universities and the Open Door (1989), and China’s Universities 1895–1995: A Century of Cultural Conflict (1995). Her edited books include Knowledge Across Cultures: Universities East and West, Education and Modernization: The Chinese Experience (1992), and China’s Education and the Industrialized World: Studies in Cultural Transfer (1987). Fifteen years of her adult life were spent in China, teaching in secondary and tertiary institutions, as well as heading up the cultural and academic affairs section of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing from 1989 to 1991.,
Yongling Lu is a doctoral candidate in Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.