Preliminary Material / Shibao Guo and Yan Guo -- Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy / Shibao Guo and Yan Guo -- Neo-Liberal Education Policy in China / Charlene Tan and Vicente Reyes -- Social Change, Citizenship, and Citizenship Education in China Since the Late 1970s / Wing-Wah Law -- English as a Foreign Language Curriculum Reform in China / Margaret Zeegers and Xiaohong Zhang -- Ambivalent “Quality” and the Educational Sublime / Jinting Wu -- Shadow Education / Wei Zhang and Mark Bray -- Teaching under China’s Market Economy / Shibao Guo -- The Impact of the Market Economy on English Teachers / Yan Guo -- Overworked and Stressed Teachers under the Market Economy / Gulbahar Beckett and Juanjuan Zhao -- Private Tutoring Cum Boarding Agencies and the Controlled Decentralization of China’s Education System / Ying Wang and Raymond K. H. Chan -- Chinese Higher Education Since 1977 / Lei Zhang , Ruyue Dai and Kai Yu -- Institutional Transformation and Aggregate Expansion of Chinese Higher Education System / Fengqiao Yan , Dan Mao and Qiang Zha -- Massification of Chinese Higher Education / Hongxia Shan and Shibao Guo -- What Does Innovation Mean and Why Does It Matter? / Heidi Ross and Yimin Wang -- Education and Career Mobility under China’s Market Economy / Jianghua Yang , Cheng Cheng and Yanjie Bian -- Social Inequality in Postgraduate Transition / Yixi Lu and Li Zong -- Transitions from Education to Work / Limin Bai -- Inequalities in China’s Compulsory Education / Hillary Parkhouse and Xue Lan Rong -- Widening Urban Rural Divides / Li Wang -- Navigating the Aspirational City / Lorin Yochim -- Educating Migrant Children / Charlotte Goodburn -- Postscript / Allan Luke -- Notes on Contributors / Shibao Guo and Yan Guo -- Index / Shibao Guo and Yan Guo.

Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from China and internationally in a dialogue about the profound social and economic transformation that has resulted from the market economy and its concomitant impact on education in China. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: Market economy and curriculum reform Teaching under China’s market economy Changes in higher education Transitions from education to work Market economy and social inequality.

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