Education in the New China

Yvonne Turner is from the UK and is currently a senior lecturer for the University of Hertfordshire (UH), specialising in Chinese Business and international business strategy and education. She spent 3 years teaching and researching in China from 1996-1999 and is involved in comparative doctoral research investigating Chinese and UK university education. Amy Acker is from the USA and has an MA in Chinese language, history and Asian Studies from Cornell University. Amy has taught for 20 years in China, Nepal and the USA. She has researched, lived and worked in universities in China for several years since 1989. She is currently undertaking doctoral research in Chinese education at the University of Bristol.

'This book will be of interest to scholars of China, and to educators interested in cross-cultural educational understanding. It provides an interesting model of action research across cultures, as well as many rich insights into contemporary Chinese education at a time of rapid change. It also opens a door to the understanding of a burgeoning arena in Chinese education, that of private schooling.' The China Quarterly

• Contents: An introduction to the project; The context of contemporary Chinese education; Introducing the people; Impressions of the Chinese educational environment; Interpreting themes from the stories about education; The teaching and learning dynamics of Harmony college; Work, gender, and the future; Chinese students in British universities; Their own words, the unambitious woman, the bookworm, the English teacher, the mature student, the construction kid, the self-made woman; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.