This article reviews research on the coevolution of educational expansion and educational
inequality within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the post–World War II period …

Higher education systems in the Chinese civilizational zone (East Asia) are rapidly
improving in quantity and quality, associated with the growth of middle classes and absolute …

Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly
accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address …

Since the 1980s, educational reforms in China have decentralized administration and
finance and privatized costs. These changes have emerged in the context of rapid economic …

Contextualized in China's social change of the past half-century, this article conceptualizes
the two aspects of China's rural-urban divide in educational inequality—the household …

We propose three models of measuring the value of educational attainment, and we
investigated using these models the changes in the effect of fathers' education on …

Wu Yuxiao 59 attainment; and educational inequality due to sibship size also displays a
rising tendency. To understand the structure and evolution of inequality in Chinese …

Until the early 1990s, Japanese education was widely commended for achieving
outstanding outcomes in global comparison. At the same time, it was frequently criticized for …

This article examines the effects of stratification processes, based on family social origins,
gender, and residential location, on educational attainment in urban China from 1949 to …

Increasing income inequality particularly since the economic crisis of 1997 has called
attention to the issue of growing educational inequality in South Korea. Although much …