Education and Society in China
About the Book Series
China’s economic rise has been breathtaking and unprecedented. Yet educational opportunities remain highly unequal. China has the essential ingredients to build a great system of education, but educational governance needs an overhaul if China is to realize its goal of dramatically boosting its technological output to world-class levels. As more work by established Chinese and overseas scholars becomes accessible in English to the larger global community, myths will be removed and replaced by more accurate and sophisticated analyses of China’s fascinatingly complex educational transformation. This series will provide highly analytical examinations of key issues in China’s education system.
Equity Issues in Chinese Higher Education Policy: A Case Study of the Enrolment Expansion Policy
1st Edition
By Hongzhi Zhang
October 27, 2025
Investigating the highly influential enrolment expansion policy in Chinese higher education, this book outlines how educational equity issues were understood and addressed in the formulation and implementation of the policy, and its impacts on the socio-economic fabric of China in the past decades....
Teacher Competence for Early Career Teachers in China: The Distance between “Ivory Tower” and “Lectern”
1st Edition
By Xiaojing Yan
October 27, 2025
Examining the teacher education landscape in China, Xiaojing Yan focuses on how early career teachers (ECTs) build their competence during the initial years of teaching, challenges that come with teacher training and pathways to improve teacher competence. Although there is a growing trend in China...
Private Tutoring Entrepreneurs in China: Narratives and Sensemaking in Multiple Social Cognitive Spaces
1st Edition
By Li Jun
September 12, 2025
Embarking on a captivating journey into the heart of private tutoring entrepreneurship in China’s bustling Chongqing region, Li Jun unveils the untold stories of private tutoring entrepreneurs, exploring their sensemaking processes through Karl Weick’s theory of organizing. With rich narrative ...
School-to-School Collaboration Enhancing Teaching: Bridging the Education Divide in China
1st Edition
By Guangbao Fang
July 11, 2025
In an era where educational disparity poses a significant challenge, this book explores the transformative power of school-to-school collaboration through the development of the Education Group in China. The chapters cover one of the critical forms of school-to-school collaboration in China, the ...
Negotiating Academic Writing in an English-Medium University: Chinese Postgraduates’ Perspectives, Practices, and Agency
1st Edition
By Xiaohao Ma
June 30, 2025
Building on a collection of students’ perspectives and narratives, Ma examines how non-native English speaking (NNES) students negotiate English academic writing (EAW) to reveal the general patterns and distinct routes in addressing challenges in higher education. With the significant expansion of ...
Graduate Employability of South Asian Ethnic Minority Youths: Voices from Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Bibi Arfeen
June 27, 2025
Through a first-of-its kind qualitative exploratory study, Bibi Arfeen elucidates the multifaceted complexities and dynamics that contribute to successful higher education-to-work transition among South Asian Ethnic Minority (EM) youths in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s recent expansion of higher education...
Urban and Rural Students’ Access to Elite Chinese Universities: Contextualising Bourdieu in China
1st Edition
By Yanru Xu
December 19, 2024
Studies have shown the disparities between urban and rural students accessing elite universities in China, a phenomenon which Xu explores in this groundbreaking book. She argues that such disparities follow a Bourdieusian capital approach showing how urban parents increased capital benefits the ...
Chinese Communist Party School and its Suzhi Education: Network Governance and Policy Implementation
1st Edition
By Chunqi Zhou
October 09, 2024
Zhou applies network governance theories to Chinese education and focuses on Chinese education policy implementation, particularly with the Chinese Communist Party Schools (CCPS). The CCPS is the institution which follows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ideas and decisions to educate key ...
Citizenship and Education in Contemporary China: Contexts, Perspectives, and Understandings
1st Edition
Edited
By Yeow-Tong Chia, Zhenzhou Zhao
October 09, 2024
A key objective of education in China is to cultivate one's moral values, with the ultimate objective of becoming fully human (做人). Unlike the "West", which regards moral cultivation as related to but separate from citizenship cultivation, East Asia (including China) views moral and citizenship ...
Culture, Creativity, and Music Education in China: Developments and Challenges
1st Edition
By Wai-Chung Ho
October 09, 2024
Ho's book explores music education in China, and how creativity, education reforms, and social transformation can be enabled through music. The essential elements of music discussed include perception and creativity, sources and stimulation, and the integration of musical creativity in diverse ...
How China’s System of Higher Education Works: Pragmatic Instrumentalism, Centralized-Decentralization, and Rational Chaos
1st Edition
By Benjamin J. Green
October 09, 2024
Green sheds light onto the mercurial and ill-defined boundaries of institutional governance within China’s unique system of higher education, a national system that remains misunderstood by scholars who continue to position it as little more than a research arm of the party/state. Through a ...
Choosing Chinese Universities: A Negotiated Choice for Hong Kong Students
1st Edition
By Alice Y.C. Te
May 27, 2024
This book unpacks the complex dynamics of Hong Kong students’ choice in pursuing undergraduate education at the universities of Mainland China. Drawing on an empirical study based on interviews with 51 students, this book investigates how macro political/economic factors, institutional influences, ...