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Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai . Ding Xiaojiong. Lexington Books, 2011. xv, 260pp. US$70 (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 0739129635; ISBN-13: 9780739129630.

Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai . Ding Xiaojiong.... educational heritage, an appreciation of the contribution it has made to the eight Confucian-heritage societies of East Asia, and a sense of its potential to enhance global educational thought, policy and practice. Ruth HAYHOE University of Toronto E-mail: ruthhayhoe@sympatico.ca DOI 10.3868/s110-002-013-0021-9 Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai. Ding Xiaojiong. Lexington Books, 2011. xv, 260pp. US$70 (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 0739129635; ISBN-13: 9780739129630. This is a book on policy study in the Chinese mainland by an insider with an outsider perspective. With contemporary policies on minban schooling in Shanghai as a case study, Ding illustrates and analyzes a case of policy metamorphosis in the contemporary Chinese mainland. The book is based on a well-designed qualitative study with 65 in-depth interviews in 2001 and 2004. Ding tries to figure out the logic of policy implementation in Shanghai as an "insider" while having a clear awareness of the dilemma of studying a policy issue in her own culture. She makes the best use of her identity as an insider, not only as a Chinese but as someone who knows some "inside" stories concerning the issue interviewed. As Ding pointed out, "I had obtained some firsthand information about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers of Education in China Brill

Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai . Ding Xiaojiong. Lexington Books, 2011. xv, 260pp. US$70 (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 0739129635; ISBN-13: 9780739129630.

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educational heritage, an appreciation of the contribution it has made to the eight Confucian-heritage societies of East Asia, and a sense of its potential to enhance global educational thought, policy and practice. Ruth HAYHOE University of Toronto E-mail: ruthhayhoe@sympatico.ca DOI 10.3868/s110-002-013-0021-9 Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Case Study of Minban Education in Shanghai. Ding Xiaojiong. Lexington Books, 2011. xv, 260pp. US$70 (Hardcover), ISBN-10: 0739129635; ISBN-13: 9780739129630. This is a book on policy study in the Chinese mainland by an insider with an outsider perspective. With contemporary policies on minban schooling in Shanghai as a case study, Ding illustrates and analyzes a case of policy metamorphosis in the contemporary Chinese mainland. The book is based on a well-designed qualitative study with 65 in-depth interviews in 2001 and 2004. Ding tries to figure out the logic of policy implementation in Shanghai as an "insider" while having a clear awareness of the dilemma of studying a policy issue in her own culture. She makes the best use of her identity as an insider, not only as a Chinese but as someone who knows some "inside" stories concerning the issue interviewed. As Ding pointed out, "I had obtained some firsthand information about

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