This title was first published in 1992: Explores the implications of the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 to the People's Republic of China and the political, economic and cultural impact of the social transition on education.
I: Education and the Social Context; 1: The Decolonization of Hong Kong
Education; 2: Hong Kong Education within Historical Processes; 3: Hong Kong
Education in an International Context: The Impact of External Forces; II:
Education and Politics; 4: Educational Policymaking in Hong Kong: The
Changing Legitimacy; 5: Preparing Pupils as Citizens of the Special
Administrative Region of Hong Kong: An Analysis of Curriculum Change and
Control during the Transition Period; III: Education and Social
Stratification; 6: Egalitarianism and the Allocation of Secondary School
Places in Hong Kong; 7: The Schooling of Girls in Hong Kong: Progress and
Contradictions in the Transition; IV: Educational Issues: Language and Labor;
8: Cantonese, English, or PutonghuaUnresolved Communicative Issue in Hong
Kongs Future; 9: The Teaching of Putonghua in Hong Kong Schools: Language
Education in a Changing Economic and Political Context; 10: Educational
Expansion and the Labor Force; V: Comparative Perspectives: One Country, Two
Educational Systems; 11: Pressure for Educational Excellence in China:
Implications for Education in Hong Kong; 12: On the Characteristics, Strong
Points, and Shortcomings of Education in Hong Kong: A Mainland Chinese
Educators View of Education in Hong Kong; 13: Education in Hong Kong and
China: Toward Convergence?
Gerard A. Postiglione, Julian Leung Yat Ming
