Examining how the increasingly interdependent economic system has driven policy change and education reform, Ka Ho Mok assesses the impact of globalization on the education systems of key East Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the "tiger economies" of South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

Centralization and Decentralization: Educational Reforms and Changing Governance in Chinese Societies (Kluwer, 2003)

Globalization and Marketization: A Comparative Analysis of Hong Kong and Singapore (Edward Elgar, 2004).

Introduction Part 1: Education systems, Policy Change and Education Reforms 1. Globalization and Structural Adjustments: Changing Policy 2. Instruments and Regulatory Arrangements in Education 3. Education Systems and Policy Change in East Asia 4. Education in East Asian Tigers: Regulation, Provision and Funding 5. Higher Education in East Asia: Common Challenges and Emerging Trends Part 2: Globalization and National Responses 6. China's Response to Globalization: Educational Decentralization and Marketization in Post-Mao China 7. Hong Kong's Responses to Globalization: Questing for Entrepreneurial Universities 8. Singapore's Responses to Globalization: Marketization of Education 9. Taiwan's Responses to globalization: changing governance in higher education 10. South Korea's responses to Globalization: Internationalization of Education 11. Japan's Responses to Globalization: Corporatization and Changing University Governance 12. Discussions and Conclusions: Globalization and Education