{"id":13679,"date":"2017-05-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.asiasociety.org\/podcasts\/asiasocietypodcast\/170519_USChinaUniversitiesPodcast.mp3"},"modified":"2017-05-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:00:00","slug":"american-universities-in-china-free-speech-bastions-or-threat-to-academic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2017\/05\/19\/american-universities-in-china-free-speech-bastions-or-threat-to-academic-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"American Universities in China\u2014Free Speech Bastions or Threat to Academic Freedom?"},"content":{"rendered":"In recent years, American universities have been setting up branches and full degree-granting campuses in China at a time when Chinese leaders are cracking down on so-called \u201cWestern values.\u201d This has raised questions back in the States \u2014 including in the U.S. Congress \u2014 as to whether academic freedom is being compromised. In this episode, we look at the case of NYU Shanghai and what challenges American educational institutions face in China's current political environment.<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.asiasociety.org\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?a=0SHpFf9ua78:CuoHGwgu1yU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.asiasociety.org\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?a=0SHpFf9ua78:CuoHGwgu1yU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/asiasociety\/eqec?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/asiasociety\/eqec\/~4\/0SHpFf9ua78\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.asiasociety.org\/~r\/asiasociety\/eqec\/~3\/0SHpFf9ua78\/170519_USChinaUniversitiesPodcast.mp3\">Asia In-Depth<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, American universities have been setting up branches and full degree-granting campuses in China at a time when Chinese leaders are cracking down on so-called \u201cWestern values.\u201d This has raised questions back in the States \u2014 including in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476030,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions\/476030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}