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It’s hard to think of a higher education system that has changed more dramatically over the past half-century than China’s. In the space of just two generations, the country’s gone from the chaos of the Cultural Revolution to building one of the world’s largest and most influential university systems, complete with world-class research institutions and mass participation. It’s achieved all this while, at the same time, working with a system and institutional culture that’s quite different from that of most