Using a social movement perspective, this monograph demonstrates the differences between the Return to the City Movement by the Chinese educated youths - the on

In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countrysi

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots hist

Red Inc. takes issue with the view that economic development will eventually promote democracy. It outlines in detail the enormous social costs of the rapid ris

Drawing on modernisation theory, this book charts the history and development of China’s rural education while examining the changes in rural teacher training