Research in school success in contemporary China has argued that market reforms have reproduced the advantages for children from the cadre and the professional families while simultaneously creating new opportunities for children of the new arising economic elites. However, it has performed less for traditional peasant families. This book places a special emphasis on how rural parents from different social backgrounds use "guanxi" (interpersonal social networks) to maintain the interconnectedness between their families and schools to create advantages for their children in school success....

This book provides an essential source for higher education teachers and student affair professionals in China and around the globe, who seek to deepen their understanding of Chinese undergraduate students they work with so as to promote their learning and development. Drawn from interview data with 64 college students in five colleges along with survey data with more than 23,000 students from 21 institutions in mainland China, this book examines student learning and college experiences from the students own perspectives.

Researchers with a focus on Chinese higher education have...

This book investigates the interplay between China's social, economic, and educational policy changes, its rural households and urban communities. It is divided into the two main spheres of teaching and learning: Part I contextualizes the home environment and Part II describes teachers and students in the schooling environment. A unique contribution of the book is its emphasis on the intersection of resource-constrained rural environments, limited knowledge networks, and urbanization of parent support, student engagement in learning, teacher and student retention.