Liu and Cowan offer a unique in-depth study of educational development and social transformation in rural China. It foregrounds identifiable settings and person

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China's rural governance over the past twenty years.

The educational system in China is marked by its dramatic inequality between rural and urban schools. The challenges facing rural schools are usually understood

A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in

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