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.
Education for Economic and Social Transformation in Rural China: Voices from the Field
1st Edition
By Xu Liu, Steven Cowan
May 27, 2024
Liu and Cowan offer a unique in-depth study of educational development and social transformation in rural China. It foregrounds identifiable settings and personalities, engaging readers with the voices and experiences of people who are involved with the education system. This book explores the ...
Multiculturalism, Chinese Identity, and Education: Who Are We?
1st Edition
By Jason Cong Lin
May 27, 2024
In Chinese societies, Chinese identity is an important yet controversial topic. This book examines official understandings of Chinese identity in Mainland China and Hong Kong, exploring how the latest governments of Mainland China and Hong Kong conceptualize Chinese identity; how ...
Intergenerational Income Mobility in China: Implications for Education Policy and Practice
1st Edition
By Yuna Hou
May 31, 2023
Intergenerational income mobility is of great societal importance due to its relevance to equal socio-economic opportunity and future economic efficiency. In her book Dr Hou explores the potential role of education policy in reducing intergenerational transmission of poverty and promoting ...
Building Cross-border Joint Universities in China: A Study of Organizational Dilemma
1st Edition
By Yunyun Qin
January 09, 2023
This book examines the interactions and dynamics between one cross-border joint-university and its social environment in the process of institutional transplantation and organizational adaptation. This study specifically demonstrates the interplays between the joint-university and its key players, ...
Rural Education in China’s Social Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Peggy A. Kong, Emily Hannum, Gerard A. Postiglione
August 01, 2022
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the People's Republic of China experienced dramatic growth and expansion that altered the educational environment of children. Rapid economic development increased prosperity and educational opportunities for children expanded in a ...
Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities
1st Edition
By Naomi C.F. Yamada
May 06, 2022
Preferential Education Policies in Multi-ethnic China: National Rhetoric, Local Realities explores the cultural logic of China’s preferential policy measures. Similar in premise but different in practice and philosophy to American affirmative action, the preferential policies evoke controversy on ...
Critical Pedagogy in Hong Kong: Classroom Stories of Struggle and Hope
1st Edition
By Carlos Soto
June 30, 2021
This book chronicles the author’s application of critical pedagogy in Hong Kong secondary schools serving students from working-class families of South Asian heritage, so-called ‘ethnic minorities’ in the local context. Soto used concepts such as banking pedagogy, generative themes, liberatory ...
Social Changes and Yuwen Education in Post-Mao China: Control, Conformity and Contradiction
1st Edition
By Min Tao
June 30, 2021
Inspired by the author’s observations of the language curriculum as a practising teacher for the past 20 years, this book addresses how the high school Chinese language and literacy (Yuwen) curriculum in China was controlled and directed in the post-Mao era. Examining the social and political ...
Public Education Reform and Network Governance: Lessons From Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Schools
1st Edition
By Philip Wing Keung Chan
September 30, 2020
This book is located in the field of education governance and sits amidst debates on public school reform in China. It examines how a top-down policy approach has been implemented from central government right down to the district level within the public education system in China. It shows the way ...
Student Learning and Development in Chinese Higher Education: College students' experience in China
1st Edition
By Yuhao Cen
May 11, 2018
This book provides an essential source for higher education teachers and student affair professionals in China and around the globe, who seek to deepen their understanding of Chinese undergraduate students they work with so as to promote their learning and development. Drawn from interview data ...
Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing: Migration, education, and policy in urban China
1st Edition
By Myra Pong
March 14, 2018
Educating the Children of Migrant Workers in Beijing is a timely book that addresses the gap in the provision of basic education to migrant children in China. It examines the case of Beijing, with a focus on policy implementation at the municipal and district levels and its impacts on migrant ...
School Choice in China: A different tale?
1st Edition
By Wu Xiaoxin
March 14, 2018
School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights how payments such as choice fees, donations, ...