Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction Establishing a New Policy-Making Mechanism and Actualizing the Transformation of the Policy-Making Models: Reflections on How to Build a Modern People-Oriented National Education System / Zhang Xiulan , Hu Xiaojiang and Qu Zhiyong -- Chapter One From Welfare to Socialization: A Review of Early Childhood Care and Educational Policies in China / Zhang Ying , Zhou Peira and Zhang Qiujie -- Chapter Two Policies on China’s Basic Education over the Last Thirty Years / Chai Chunqing and Cheng Gang -- Chapter Three Thirty Years of Special Education in China: Policy Construction of the Modern Special Education System / Zhao Xiaohong , Tang Min and Chen Jiao -- Chapter Four Compulsory Education of Migrant Children: Problems and Policy Reaction, from the Angle of Equity / Qu Zhiyong and Wang Li -- Chapter Five An Overview of Studies in Vocational Education Policy in China over the Past Thirty Years / He Zhen , Wang Qiu , Zhang Mei and Cui Jian -- Chapter Six Chinese Higher Education during the Past Thirty Years: The Transformation of Public Policy / Yang Dongping -- Chapter Seven A Review and Analysis of Ethnic Minority Education Policies in China over the Past Thirty Years / Chen Lipeng , Liu Yanqing , Hao Xiaoming , Kong Wei , Ma Ming and Su Yang -- Chapter Eight The Report of China’s Private Education Policy Development / Wu Hua and Wen Dai -- Index.

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China’s Education Development and Policy, 1978-2008 is translated from the original Chinese version and presents the current assessment of the changes to the educational system in China and how those changes have been perceived during the past thirty years. This volume and the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessible English language look at the state of current scholarship in China, and as such, does not simply provide information for the direct study of socio-political issues, but also for meta-level analysis of how the domestic scholarship in China is developing and assessing the interplay of the country's political and economic reforms with the society and daily life of its people.