Private schools resurfaced in China after 1978 when the Chinese government embarked on an economic reform for modernization. This book offers a comprehensive re

A study of the development, characteristics, problems, issues and future prospects of private schools and universities in China after 1978. It is based on field

Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation in China of huge numbers of private universities and colleges in response to a wide-ranging spectrum of socio-ec

Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected t

Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality.