Supporting data for “Between Red Republic and Confucian Shimen: Chinese Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education”

This study is about the conceptualization, mechanism and influnce of Chinese intellectual leadership. The target paticipants are Chinese academics who work in Chinese universities with a cooperative stance towards Chinese government and meanwhile they follow Confucian tradition. Around 15 cases are selected and analyzed. My data files consist of: 1) Interview transcripts with Chinese academics; 2) Observation data collected from the context of Chinese higher education.