Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific
About the Book Series
Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific capitalises on the intellectual and political bequest of the French sociologist to analyse and debate problems associated with education and social justice within, between, and beyond nations of Asia Pacific. The series welcomes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions – in the forms of authored books and edited volumes – that draw on but do not consecrate Bourdieu. It opens up an intellectual space for educational research to utilise, critique, and/or extend Bourdieu’s toolkits – including but not limited to his signature concepts of capital, habitus, and field – for the sake of educational equality and social change. The series does not take the economic and geopolitical classification of ‘the Asia Pacific’ as a given. Instead, it encourages contestation, deconstruction, and reconstruction of that classification – whether as a discursive or ontological category – by deliberately embracing the syntactic inelegance of the term, Asia Pacific.
Education and Upward Social Mobility in China: Imagining Positive Sociology with Bourdieu
1st Edition
By Jin Jin
December 26, 2025
Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu.This book shows how Bourdieu’s ideas can be used to go beyond the analysis of domination and imagine a positive...
(Re)writing the Future: Creating Chinese International Students at Home
1st Edition
By Xiaoyuan Li, Kun Dai
November 20, 2025
Since the implementation of the Open Door Policy, studying abroad, or Chinese Liuxue, has undergone significant transitions. This book reveals how Chinese students prepare for Western universities through international schooling. It explores their motivations and strategies within China’s evolving ...
A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment: Policy Habitus
1st Edition
By Xiao Han
May 30, 2025
This book provides an empirical examination of the meso-level policy enactment of transnational higher education in the context of China. China’s national policies have not been mechanically implemented at the sub-national level: the strategic enactment is always accompanied by great creativity, ...
Recontextualising and Recontesting Bourdieu in Chinese Education: Habitus, Mobility and Language
1st Edition
Edited
By Guanglun Michael Mu, Karen Dooley
December 19, 2024
For more than 40 years, researchers have explored the utility of Bourdieu’s sociology for settings beyond the French and Algerian contexts of its origin. This edited collection has a focus on China, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice as Chinese education gains relevance and attention around ...
Bourdieu and Sino–Foreign Higher Education: Structures and Practices in Times of Crisis and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Guanglun Michael Mu, Karen Dooley
October 09, 2024
Bourdieu’s sociology has traditionally been confined to the limits of its French national context. This edited collection seeks to challenge these boundaries, applying Bourdieu’s analysis of practice to Chinese education as it gains relevance and attention around the globe. This book stems from ...
Sociologising Child and Youth Resilience with Bourdieu: An Australian Perspective
1st Edition
By Guanglun Michael Mu
August 26, 2024
In this book, Mu crafts a sociology of resilience through his multi-year research with Australian students. The content is not merely concerned with individual achievements in precarious conditions but also ponders over transformative, reflexive, and power-rejective everyday practices that make ...
Bourdieu and Chinese Education: Inequality, Competition, and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Guanglun Michael Mu, Karen Dooley, Allan Luke
October 25, 2018
This book uses Bourdieu’s sociological approach for research as a jumping-off point for framing our understandings and analyses of China and Chinese education. Three major themes—inequality, competition, and change—are explored across several theoretical and contextual bases. Bringing together top ...






