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  • RURAL EDUCATION IN CHINA’S SOCIAL TRANSITION
    PEGGY A. KONG / EMILY HANNUM / GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the People's Republic of China experienced dramatic growth and expansion that altered the educational environment of children. Rapid economic development increased prosperity and educational opportunities for children expanded in a wealthier society. Yet, a by-product of rising wealth was rising inequality. While the children of ...

    $1,160.00

  • EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN HONG KONG
    GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE / JULIAN LEUNG YAT MING
    This title was first published in 1992: Explores the implications of the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 to the People's Republic of China and the political, economic and cultural impact of the social transition on education. ...

    $860.00

  • EDUCATION, ETHNICITY, SOCIETY AND GLOBAL CHANGE IN ASIA
    GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE
    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see h...

    $1,280.00

  • THE HONG KONG READER
    MING K. CHAN / GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE
    This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, as well as Frank Ching, Berry F. Hsu, Reginald Yin-wang Kwok, Peter Kwong, Julian Y.M. Leung, Ronald Skeldon, Alvin Y. So, Yun-wing Sung, and James T.H. Tang - the majority of whom live and work in Hong Kong an...

    $2,800.00

  • HONG KONG'S REUNION WITH CHINA: THE GLOBAL DIMENSIONS
    GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE / JAMES TUCK-HONG TANG
    The issues surrounding Hong Kong's global position and international links grow increasingly complex by the day as the process of Hong Kong's transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administration Region unfolds. This volume addresses a number of questions relating to this process. How international is Hong Kong? What are its global and international dimension...

    $660.00

  • EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN CHINA: INEQUALITY IN A MARKET ECONOMY
    GERARD A. POSTIGLIONE
    Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering pov...

    $1,560.00

  • CHINA'S ASSIMILATIONIST LANGUAGE POLICY
    BECKETT, GULBAHAR H. / POSTIGLIONE, GERARD A.
    China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million.  Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration.  At present integrationist policies predominate, notably in the education system, where instru...

    $1,560.00