This dispatch examines the contrasting educational paths of China & India from 1900 to 2018, highlighting how their unique approaches to human capital development have influenced economic growth.
Of course quite silent on the completely destruction of higher education institutions in China during the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”! At Binghamton, Mark Selden and Bill Hinton (coming from Cornell) had quite a few Chinese graduate students in the 1980s, whose parents had disappeared during the CR on account of their academic occupations. A lot of credit must be given to Deng et al for beginning the transformation of China into the education & research powerhouse it is today
I met Fei Xiaotong - one of many who were made to disappear and then came back into circulation in the 1980s - at the Good Society Conference in 1993 - he said that the annihilation of the Gang of Four freed China from the ideological straitjacket and ensured that the revived focus on research & education led to the annihilation of poverty
The paper is broadly quite right - however a more historical perspective might be useful esp re China’s “trajectory”
Of course quite silent on the completely destruction of higher education institutions in China during the “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”! At Binghamton, Mark Selden and Bill Hinton (coming from Cornell) had quite a few Chinese graduate students in the 1980s, whose parents had disappeared during the CR on account of their academic occupations. A lot of credit must be given to Deng et al for beginning the transformation of China into the education & research powerhouse it is today
I met Fei Xiaotong - one of many who were made to disappear and then came back into circulation in the 1980s - at the Good Society Conference in 1993 - he said that the annihilation of the Gang of Four freed China from the ideological straitjacket and ensured that the revived focus on research & education led to the annihilation of poverty