China's recent education reforms are a result of selective policy borrowing from 'the West'.
Although comparativists have highlighted the importance of cultural context in policy …

Recent education reform in China reflects the global trend of education policy borrowing
from Anglophone countries such as the USA. The reform in China essentially advocates …

For over a decade, Mainland China has been embarking on an ambitious nation-wide
education reform ('New Curriculum Reform') for its basic education. The reform reflects …

This article explores the exam-oriented, ritualistic, and exemplary Chinese education system
through a double-layered historical and ethnographic analysis. Firstly, I examine three …

With the modernization of Chinese society, beginning in the early-20th century, the Chinese
language has experienced a fundamental change that has transformed Chinese pedagogic …

Modernization has resulted in a remarkable homogeneity in curriculum structures and
pedagogic practices around the world. Individual countries with diverse historical and …

With a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China's
educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized …

Thirty-five years after launching its economic reform and opening to the outside world, China
finds itself inching closer to becoming the world's largest economy. Education has played a …

Just as the world has increasingly been compressed over recent decades through
transnationally engaged actors or 'carriers' such as mobile experts, international …

This is the second of four essays discussing Wu's 'Interpretation, autonomy, and
transformation: Chinese pedagogic discourse in a cross-cultural perspective'(JCS, 43 (5) …