Equity Issues in Chinese Higher Education Policy - A Case Study of the Enrolment Expansion Policy

Investigating the highly influential enrolment expansion policy in Chinese higher education, this book outlines how educational equity issues were understood and addressed in the formulation and implementation of the policy, and its impacts on the socio-economic fabric of China in the past decade.

List of contents

1. Framing equity issues in Chinese higher education 2. Research trajectory of Chinese education policy and educational equity 3. Policy and policy analysis 4. Context of influence (I) 5. Context of influence (II) 6. Context of policy text production 7. Context of practice 8. Main arguments and contributions of knowledge

About the author

Hongzhi Zhang is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. His main research interests are educational equity, education policy, higher education, Asia study, and curriculum and pedagogy. Hongzhi is a co-editor of Asia as Method in Education Studies: A Defiant Research Imagination (Routledge, 2015). He has established "Asia as method" as a researchable concept and contributed influential theoretical and empirical developments in research about "Asia as method" in educational studies, particularly how it can be developed in multicultural, post-colonial Asian countries and for it to be culturally expansive in Western education systems as an ideal and as a practice across cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Hongzhi (Monash University Zhang, Zhang Hongzhi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032358352
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235835-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Education and Society in China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; China, EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, EDUCATION / Comparative, Organization & management of education, Regional Studies, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Regional / International studies, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy