Reference Books in International Education (Garland Publishing)

State Formation and Chinese School Politics in Postwar Singapore and Hong Kong

By: Ting-Hong Wong

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Hardcover | 24 April 2002 | Edition Number 1

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306 Pages

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Combining theoretical insights from Antonio Gramsci, Basil Berstein, Bob Jessop, and Michael Apple, this book contrasts the interrelationship between state formation and Chinese school politics in post-WWII Singapore and Hong Kong. The book explores the impacts of cultural identity, the internal configurations of the educational fields, and the struggles both outside and inside the educational systems on the process of state formations. By comparing Chinese school politics in Singapore and Hong Kong, one mono-racial and another multi-racial, Wong generates a theory that explains diverse connections between state formation and school education and various forms of state hegemony under dissimilar contexts of racial politics.

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"Wong has been able to examine and critically analyze the fate of Chinese schools and their interactions with the government authorities in these two city-states. The summaries of the complicated historical case studies in Hong Kong and Singapore are concise and highly informative." -- History of Education Quarterly

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