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Engineering, Engineers & Engineering Education in China

Updated on September 22, 2022 by Qin Zhu

Andreas, J. (2009). Rise of the red engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the origins of China’s new class. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Davis, M. (2009). Defining engineering from Chicago to Shantou. The Monist, 92(3), 325-338.

Dodgen, R. (2001). Controlling the dragon: Confucian engineer and the Yellow River. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

Jesiek, B., & Shen, Y. (2012). Educating Chinese engineers: The case of Shanghai Jiao Tong University during 1896-1949. In S. Christensen, C. Mitcham, B. Li, & Y. An (Eds.), Engineering, development, and philosophy: American, Chinese, and European perspectives (pp. 123-143). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.

Kirby, W. (2011). Engineers and the state in modern China. In W. P. Alford, W. Kirby, & K. Winston (Eds.), Prospects for the professions in China, (pp. 283-314). London, UK: Routledge.

Kling, R. (1976). Engineering education in the People's Republic of China. European Journal of Engineering Education, 1(4), 297-302.
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Larsen, K. (1976). Technology and engineering education in Chinese society. European Journal of Engineering Education, 1(4), 303-309.

Shapiro, J. (2001). Mao’s war against nature: Politics and the environment in revolutionary China. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.


Tang, X., Zhu, Q., & Pang, H. (2016). Toward a cross-cultural conversation: Liberal arts education for engineers in China and the U.S..Proceedings of the 123rd ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, LA. June 26-29. 

Wang, W., Li, M., Jesiek, B., Zhu, Q., Yuan, J., & Lei, Q. (2014). Emergence of engineering as a discipline in modern China: Separation of Confucian liberal learning from technique. Proceedings of the 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN. June 15-18.  ​​

Wang, Q., & Zhu, Q. (2012). The impacts of Chinese traditional thinking patterns on modern engineering and development. In S. Christensen, C. Mitcham, B. Li, & Y. An (Eds.), Engineering, development, and philosophy: American, Chinese, and European perspectives (pp. 37-46). Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.

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Zhang, H., & Zhu, Q. (2021). Instructor perceptions of engineering ethics education at Chinese engineering universities: A cross-cultural approach. Technology in Society, 65, Article 101585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101585​

Zhu, Q. (2010). Engineering ethics studies in China: Dialogue between traditionalism and modernism. Engineering Studies, 2(2), 85-107.

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Zhu, Q. (2019). Toward a globalized engineering education: Comparing dominant images of engineering education in the United States and China. Proceedings of the 126th ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL. June 15-19.

Zhu, Q., & Jesiek, B. (2014). In pursuit of the Dao in policymaking: Toward a cultural approach to understanding engineering education policy in China. Technology in Society, 38, 169-176. ​

Zhu, Q., Jesiek, B., & Gong, Y. (2015). Past/forward policymaking: Transforming Chinese engineering education since the Reform and Opening-up. History of Education, 44(5), 553-574. 

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Zhu, Q., Jesiek, B., & Yuan, J. (2014). Engineering education policymaking in cross-national context: A critical analysis of engineering education accreditation in China. Proceedings of the 121st ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN. June 15-18.​
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