Book Overview

This book examines the Chinese education policy landscape since 1978 by constructing a policy analysis tool, the “concept-added policy chain,” and discusses how to review, assess and forecast the development of that landscape, historically and contextually. In addition, it presents several major historical educational policy shifts in order to explore both the internal and external rationale behind the development of an education policy with Chinese characteristics. It also provides a unique policy analysis tool for investigating the intricate political logics in contemporary Chinese education policy development at the macro-level, systematically and comprehensively.