CONTRIBUTOR:

Qiang Zha

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TITLE:

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Program in Education

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York University

BIOGRAPHY:

Qiang Zha is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Program in Education at the Faculty of Education, York University, Canada. He holds a PhD (Higher Education) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto and a MA (Comparative Education) from the Institute of Education, University of London. His research interests include Chinese and East Asian higher education, international academic relations, global brain circulation, internationalization of higher education, globalization and education, differentiation and diversity in higher education, theories of organizational change, knowledge transfer and commercialization, and postsecondary co-op education in Canada and elsewhere. His recent books include these co-authored and edited volumes: Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education (Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong and Springer, 2011), Education and Global Cultural Dialogue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Education in China. Educational History, Models, and Initiatives (Berkshire Publishing, 2013), Canadian Universities in China’s Transformation: An Untold Story (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), and China’s University-Industry Partnership, Cooperative Education, and Entrepreneurship Education in a Global Context (Routledge, 2017).