For more than three decades, Gerard A. Postiglione has witnessed the globalization of education and society in Hong Kong, China and the wider Asian region. His research emphasizes the diversity and complexity of the region, from studies of education and the academic profession during Hong Kong's retrocession, to reform of ethnic minority education and the rise of world class universities in the Chinese mainland, as well as the complexity of mass higher education in an increasingly dynamic Asia. This selection of 12 of his most representative papers and chapters documents his scholarship in comparative higher education in China, Hong Kong and Asia.

Gerard A. Postiglione is Chair Professor of Higher Education, former Associate Dean for Research, and Director of the Wah Ching Centre on Education in China, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.

Introduction: Contexts, Processes, and Institutions

Part I: Contexts: Society and Education
Chapter 1: From Capitalism to Socialism? Hong Kong Education within a Transitional Society
Chapter 2: Education, in Understanding Chinese Society
Chapter 3: Contexts and Reform in East Asian Education - Making the Move from Periphery to Core

Part II: Cultural Processes: Pluralism and Assimilation
Chapter 4: Education of Ethnic Minority Groups in China
Chapter 5: Ethnic Minority Identity and Educational Outcomes in a Rising China
Chapter 6: Making Tibetans in China: The Educational Challenges of Harmonious Multiculturalism
Chapter 7: Dislocated Education: The Case of Tibet

Part III Institutions: Universities under Globalization
Chapter 8: Maintaining Global Engagement in the Face of National Integration in Hong Kong
Chapter 9: Anchoring Globalization in Hong Kong's Research Universities: Network Agents, Institutional Arrangements and Brain Circulation
Chapter 10: The Rise of Research Universities: The Case of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Role of the Overseas Chinese Academic Profession
Chapter 11: Research Universities for National Rejuvenation and Global Influence: China's Search for a Balanced Model
Chapter 12: Global Recession and Higher Education in Eastern Asia: China, Mongolia and Vietnam