Is Chinese education underfunded?

Kipnis, Andrew; Li, Shanfeng

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Is Chinese education underfunded?

Date

2010

Authors

Kipnis, Andrew

Li, Shanfeng

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

Scholarship on education in China has correctly emphasized the massive inequalities in reform era educational funding. In describing these inequalities, however, scholars have made dubious claims about the supposedly low level of funding for education in