Edited by W. John Morgan, Professor Emeritus, School of Education; Senior Fellow, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham; Honorary Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Qing Gu, Director, London Centre for Leadership in Learning (LCLL) and Professor of Leadership in Education, UCL Institute of Education, UK and Fengliang Li, Associate Professor of the Economics of Education, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University, People’s Republic of China

• Contents:PrefaceIntroduction: Education in ChinaW. John Morgan, Qing Gu and Fengliang LiPart I: The Historical Background1. The Origins of Modern Chinese EducationMuchu Zhang with Ruth Hayhoe2. Maoist Ideology and EducationW. John MorganPart II: The Contemporary Chinese System 3. The Structure, Governance and Finance of Education: Xianan Hu and Fengliang Li 4. Early Childhood EducationXin Zhou5. Primary EducationJohn Chi-Kin Lee and Huan Song 6. Secondary EducationYu Zhang7. Teacher Education Ping Zhao, Jun Zhou, and Qiong Li8. Universities and Higher Education Yuzhuo Cai and Fengqiao Yan 9. Technical and Vocational Education Zhiqun Zhao and Xueping Wu10. Distance Education and Lifelong LearningFengliang Li, Nianchun Wang, and Xianan HuPart III: Problems and Policies 11. Citizenship Education Wing-Wah Law12. Educational Inequality Yanbi Hong and Yandong Zhao 13. Special and Inclusive Education Sarah Dauncey14. Education and Minorities Miaoyan Yang 15. Private Tutoring Peggy A. Kong, Xiaoran Yu, and Xia Zhao16. Education and the Labour Market Yongpo Tian and Wenwen Ji17. The Education of Migrant Workers and their Children Litao Lu, Li Yuan, and Feng Gao18. Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education Su Wang19. Environmental Education Qing Tian, Yu Huang, Gerald A. McBeath, and Jenifer Huang McBeath20. Chinese Students Overseas: Choice of destination Dan Liu and W. John Morgan21. Chinese Students Overseas: Studying and returningQing Gu and Michele SchweisfurthPart IV: The Special Administrative Regions22. Education in the Macao Special Administrative RegionStephanie W. Lee and Tsz Kit Cheng23. Education in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Kai-ming Cheng Index

‘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.’