Abstract
Since its independence in 1991, Kazakhstan started to interact with China in every sphere. In recent years, there have been an increasingly active exchange and cooperation between the two countries, including in the field of higher education. However, this has attracted little attention in the research community. Unlike the China-Western higher education partnerships, which concentrate on more affluent and developed areas, China’s educational interactions with Central Asia often take place in the less-developed, ethnically diverse, but strategically important Western border regions. Borrowing from the concept of regionalization, this chapter focuses on the development of China–Kazakhstan higher education relationships since 1991, with case s studies of the University of Shanghai Cooperation organization, Confucius Institute and achievements of higher education in **njiang. It reveals that China’s higher education cooperation between China and Kazakhstan not only benefits China’s national plan to develop its Western border region but also comprises an essential part of its regional security strategy.
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Li, A. (2022). Nurturing a Good Neighbour: A Review of Sino-Kazakhstani Higher Education Cooperation. In: Savelyeva, T., Fang, G. (eds) Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5104-6_3
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