Handbook of Education in China

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'This edited volume is a highly comprehensive Handbook that contains everything a beginning scholar in Chinese education might need to know. It offers highly detailed chapters with some significant areas of critique, which will be of interest to the non-Chinese scholar. Students and others who are new to Chinese education will find it an essential Handbook.' -- Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 'The Handbook of Education in China is the essential sourcebook for those interested in education in the People's Republic of China. All the chapters are written by active and experienced researchers in their respective fields; and the reader will learn how and why China's education has developed in the way it has, about its political, economic, and social context, and how it is likely to develop in future. It is a significant milestone in the study of education in a country which continues to grow in global importance and interest.' -- Ding Xiaohao, Peking University, China 'This book offers something qualitatively different in that it provides, for the first time, a detailed, comprehensive, and critical commentary on Chinese education in all of its many aspects. Each chapter gives the reader a clear account of developments in the specific area of education under consideration, together with a review of research-based knowledge of the problems faced, and possible solutions.' -- Qian Tang, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 'This Handbook provides a panoramic view on the latest developments and challenging issues facing China's education sector. By bringing together historic perspectives, theoretic reflections and empirical evidence, it sheds new light on the complexity of its educational system, relationship between education and society, as well as new trends, dynamics and possible impacts of its education reform in China and beyond.' -- Bin Wu, Nottingham University Business School, UK