Chinese Higher Education Reform and Social Justice
In place of a distributive justice perspective which focuses simply on equal access to universities, this book presents a broader understanding of the relationship between Chinese higher education and economic and social change. The necessity for research on the place of universities in contemporary Chinese society may be seen from current debates about and policy towards issues of educational inequality at Chinese universities. Many questions arise as a consequence: What are the limitations of neo-liberalism in higher education policy and what are the alternatives? How has the Chinese government met the challenges of educational inequality, and what lessons may be learned from its recent initiatives? How may higher education enhance social justice in Chinese society given economic, social and cultural inequality? What may be learned from the experience of Macau, Hong Kong, and of Taiwan in terms of achieving social justice in Chinese universities? These questions are considered by a group of leading scholars from both inside and outside China.
Bin Wu is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
W. John Morgan is a Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK.
China policy series
Series Editor:
Zheng Yongnian
China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, UK
1 China and the New International Order
Edited by Wang Gungwu and Zheng Yongnian
2 Chinas Opening Society
The non-state sector and governance
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Joseph Fewsmith
3 Zhao Ziyang and Chinas Political Future
Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne
4 Hainan State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province
Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard
5 Non-Governmental Organizations in China
The rise of dependent autonomy
Yiyi Lu
6 Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State
Edited by Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim and Wing Thye Woo
7 Chinas Information and Communications Technology Revolution
Social changes and state responses
Edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Yongnian Zheng
8 Socialist China, Capitalist China
Social tension and political adaptation under economic globalisation
Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne
9 Environmental Activism in China
Lei Xei
10 Chinas Rise in the World ICT Industry
Industrial strategies and the catch-up development model
Lutao Ning
11 Chinas Local Administration
Traditions and changes in the sub-national hierarchy
Edited by Jae-Ho Chung and Tao-chiu Lam
12 The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor
Culture, reproduction and transformation
Zheng Yongian
13 Chinas Trade Unions How Autonomous Are They?
Masaharu Hishida, Kazuko Kojima, Tomoaki Ishii and Jian Qiao
14 Legitimating the Chinese Communist Party since Tiananmen
A critical analysis of the stability discourse
Peter Sandby-Thomas
15 China and International Relations
The Chinese view and the contribution of Wang Gungwu
Zheng Yongnian
16 The Challenge of Labour in China
Strikes and the changing labour regime in global factories
Chris King-chi Chan
17 The Impact of Chinas 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Edited by Jean-Philippe Bja
18 The Institutional Dynamics of Chinas Great Transformation
Edited by Xiaoming Huang
19 Higher Education Reform in China
Beyond the expansion
Edited by W. John Morgan and Bin Wu
20 Chinas Crisis Management
Edited by Jae Ho Chung
21 China Engages Global Governance
A new world order in the making?
Gerald Chan, Pak K. Lee and Lai-Ha Chan
22 Political Culture and Participation in Rural China
Yang Zhong
23 Chinas Soft Power and International Relations
Hongyi Lai and Yiyi Lu
24 Chinas Climate Policy
Chen Gang
25 Chinese Society Change and Transformation
Edited by Li Peilin
26 Chinas Challenges to Human Security
Foreign relations and global implications
Edited by Guoguang Wu
27 Chinas Internal and International Migration
Edited by Li Peilin and Laurence Roulleau-Berger
28 Chinas Internal and International Migration
Edited by Li Peilin and Laurence Roulleau-Berger
29 The Rise of Think Tanks in China
Xufeng Zhu
30 Governing Health in Contemporary China
Yanzhong Huang
31 New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations
How far can the rapprochement go?
Edited by Weixing Hu
32 China and the European Union
Edited by Lisheng Dong, Zhengxu Wang and Henk Dekker
33 China and the International System
Becoming a world power
Edited by Xiaoming Huang and Robert G. Patman
34 Chinas Social Development and Policy
Into the next stage?
Litao Zhao
35 E-Government in China
Technology, power and local government reform
Jesper Schlger
36 Social Protest in Contemporary China, 20032010
Transitional pains and regime legitimacy
Yanqi Tong and Shaohua Lei
37 Chinas Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructuring
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Sarah Y. Tong
38 China Entering the Xi Jinping Era
Edited by Zheng Yongnian and Lance L.P. Gore
39 Chinas Assertive Nuclear Posture
State security in an anarchic international order
Baohui Zhang
40 Chinese Higher Education Reform and Social Justice
Edited by Bin Wu and W. John Morgan
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