Ali L Ezzatyar, Iranian Immigration to Israel: History and Voices, in the Shadow of Kings

Abstract

The author maintains a strict attention by adhering to and reproducing the subject(s) in the book’s title. A dialogue between internationalization and indigenization leads the author to determine three interrelated ecological systems in the development of Tsinghua’s sociology: departmental, institutional, and national. While these systems inform Tsinghua’s ‘national’ mission and endeavor, they are not dislodged from global trends and remain responsive to global factors. Therefore, Tsinghua’s effort to achieve a ‘Sociology with Chinese Characteristics’ is oppressed by challenges chief of which is that the university, the sociology department and its scholars are all forces for internationalization. Xie describes such situation as ‘double shackles’ in which scholars have encountered institutional and cultural dilemmas in their struggles to balance global and national/local demands while constructing their discipline and international influence. Previous research has focused upon internationalization at the university level without going further to investigate a particular academic discipline, which makes this book significant. The details provided are too extensive to exhaustively embrace in this review. Immense effort, accurate analysis and substantial referencing makes this book an outstanding read overall.