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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
It would be naïve to pretend that politics and the actual needs of governance do not play a role in social sciences in any part of the world. However, the political dismissal of faculty members in Chinese universities, along with other political interventions reported in recent Western media, reveals the outspoken trend toward scientific professionalization and scientific autonomy in a different light. The professionalisation, internationalisation, indigenisation and marketisation of social science does not necessarily diminish the role of politics and ideology or even
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