Abstract：After 70 years of sequential development and gradual evolution, policies of international students in China have formed a relatively complete system while its specific content has been constantly evolved, adjusted and improved with changes of domestic and international situations. From the perspective of historical institutionalism, this research analyses the historical evolution and institutional logic of China′s international student policies since the founding of the People′s Republic of China (PRC). It could be found that in the past 70 years, policies of international students in China have gone through five periods: exploration, construction, adjustment, improvement and promotion. Policies of international students in China experienced a path of adjustment in the late 1970s, and has shown a characteristic of path dependence since then. Besides, six dynamic factors including the foreign policy, the macroeconomic system, the level of economic development, the educational management system, the scale of higher education and ideas of international education, have promoted the evolution and innovation of policies of international students in China.
刘宝存， 彭婵娟. 中华人民共和国成立以来我国来华留学政策的变迁研究——基于历史制度主义视角的分析[J]. 高校教育管理, 2019, 13(6): 1-10.
LIU Baocun, PENG Chanjuan. The changes of China′s international student policies since 1949: an analysis based on historical institutionalism. Journal of Higher Education Management, 2019, 13(6): 1-10.
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