Abstract Acknowledgements Declaration List of Tables Introduction 1.Nationalism and the Open Door Policy: Chinese Higher Education 1840s-1990s 2. Tensions Between the Global and the Local: A Comparative Illustration of Two Reorganisations of China's Higher Education in the 1950s and 1990s 3.Globalisation: A Context of Inequality and Scarcity 4.Internationalisation: Its Meanings, Rationales and Implications 5.Implementing Internationalisation: An Overall Picture of Guangzhou Universities 6.Internationalised while Provincialised? A Case Study of South China Normal Univeristy 7.Openness and Reform as Dynamics for Development: The Case of South China University of Technology 8.

Zhongshan University Case Study: Some Analyses of a Comprehensive University 9.Advantages or Disadvantages: Important issues for Internationalisation of China's Higher Education 10.Conclusions and Future Directions Appendix One: Teachers/Researchers Questionnaire Form Appendix Two: Institutional Administrators Questionnaire Form Appendix Three: Interviews Conducting in Guanghou and Hong Kong Appendix Four: Interview Schedule Bibliography.