This volume critically examines and provides comparative perspectives on the major strategies that selected Asian countries and societies have adopted to enhance their national competitiveness in the increasingly globalized world.

Ka Ho Mok is the Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Director of the Centre for Greater China Studies and Acting Vice President (Research and Development) of The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). He also serves as Changjiang Chair Professor of Zhejiang University, a distinguished national chair professorship conferred by the Ministry of Education in China since 2010.

Kar Ming Yu is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at HKIEd and is concurrently Director, Associate Degree Studies of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at HKIEd.

1. Introduction - The Quest for Regional Hub Status and Transnationalization of Higher Education 2. Education Hubs: Focus on Student Mobility, Human Resource Development and Knowledge Production 3. Managing Human Capital in World Cities: The Development of Hong Kong into an Education Hub 4. Education and Human Capital Management in a World City: The Case of Singapore 5. Cross-border Educational Collaboration between Taiwan and China: The implications for Educational Governance 6. Hai Gui and Hai Dai: The Job-seeking Experiences of High-skilled Returnees to China 7. Transnational Higher Education and Challenges for University Governance in China 8. The Internationalization of Higher Education in Malaysia and South Korea: Student Mobility and Learning Experiences 9. Mobility, Migration and the Road to the Innovative University: Implications for the Asia Pacific Region 10. The Long-Term Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan: A Survery of Non-Japanese Faculty Members in Japanese Universities 11. Regional Cooperation or The extension of Domestic Education? The Implementation of Offshore Education in Taiwan 12. Trading on the West's Strength: The Dilemma of Transnational Higher Education in East Asia 13. Paradox or Parody? Globalization and Internationalization of Higher Education