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Constancy of Purpose
Hong Kong University Press 1987; US$ 43.00This volume relates the development of the Faculty from its beginnings and commemorates the establishment of one of the oldest and most reputable medical schools in South East Asia. more...
China
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 199.00This is a dedicated issue of Chinese authors.The six papers here cover new initiatives/reforms in China and are presented by staff based either at Beijing Normal University or Hong Kong Institute of Education (with one joint author from Queensland University of Technology, Australia) more...
Dispersal and Renewal
Hong Kong University Press 1998; US$ 38.00In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and members of the Court who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of Japanese occupation when there was only the shell of a campus left standing on Pokfulam Road. more...
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 1981; US$ 38.00The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kongs largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance of 1911 its first faculties were formed from the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded in 1887. The growth and development of the University to its present internationally-recognized... more...
China's universities, 1895-1995
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 160.00This first comprehensive account of Chinese higher education during the modern period examines the first hundred years of the development of universities in China. more...
The Power of Position
University of California Press 2004; US$ 65.00Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals?from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be?how Beida's historical importance has come to transcend that of... more...
Bilingual Education in China
Multilingual Matters 2007; US$ 59.95Compares and contrasts two strands of bilingualism in China, one for minority nationality groups, the other for majority. This volume examines the history, policy, philosophy, politics, provision and practice in bilingual, trilingual or multilingual education involving Mandarin Chinese, English, and minority languages. more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The China Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The China Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the United... more...
Enhancing China's Competitiveness through Lifelong Learning
World Bank Publications 2007; US$ 9.99This book discusses the issues and steps involved in building a lifelong learning system in China, including: a coherent policy framework, a sound incentive and institutional framework, a sound regulatory environment, a coordinated governance process, a timely and reliable management information system, a dynamic link with the evolving global system,... more...
Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the PRC after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s. more...









