This thesis is a genealogy of the emergence and deployment of Higher Education (HE) in modernudChina, in particular its role in the production and shaping of a variety of subject forms. By engagingudboth historical and contemporary materials connected to HE, I intend to display, in Foucault's words,udan 'effective' history of the emergence and deployment of HE in modern China, the ways in which HEudbecomes a particular apparatus of social selection and personnel production, and also an importantudform of government, also the ways in which HE influences its subjects in understanding their ownudsubject positions in relation to HE, to others and to themselves.udIn this thesis, HE is first understood as a complex apparatus made of a variety of components; each ofudthese components — principle, system, curriculum, pedagogy, and campus, involves multiple powerudrelations and cannot be reduced to a single power will. HE can be understood as a particular form ofudgovernment over its targeted subjects. HE as such works through an assemblage of rationalities,udauthorities, technologies, choices and desires, all contributing to the production and shaping ofudparticular forms truth, subject and ethics. Within this assemblage of HE government, all elements areudnot unified but rather open to struggles, changes and transformations.
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