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(Vol. 2, No. 3, 2005), 《神州交流》—Chinese Cross
Currents had already tried to approach these several questions. Among them, one in particular
has recently once again taken a more dramatic aspect, that is the transition between the education
received at the university or professional school level and the entry into the job market.
The “crisis” spoken of in the editorial of this issue transforms the problem into a national pressing
challenge. The following three articles try to see into it. First Huang Futao, writing from
Hiroshima University, Japan, where he teaches, sums up the recent steps taken in Chinese higher
education policy from “qualitative enhancement to quantitative growth” to foster the economic
development of the country. Then Anja Michaela Fladrich, from the Holmes Institute in
Melbourne, Australia, by analyzing the observations of Chinese young professionals, presents a
vivid landscape of the transition from education to employment and of its difficulties. Professor
Gerard A. Postiglione with Xie Ailei, his postgraduate student at the Hong Kong Institute of
Higher Education, concludes this section with some catering remarks on the job market and
China’s graduate employment problem.
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