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A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment: Policy Habitus book cover

1st Edition

A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment Policy Habitus

By Xiao Han Copyright 2025
120 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

120 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides an empirical examination of the meso-level policy enactment of transnational higher education in the context of China. China’s national policies have not been mechanically implemented at the sub-national level: the strategic enactment is always accompanied by great creativity, innovation, and/or even resistance. From the prism of Bourdieu’s relational sociology, this study... Read more

1. Meso-level Policy Enactment at a Glance: From Foucault to Bourdieu 2. Globalization, Internationalization and the Rise of Transnational Higher Education in the World and China 3. Policy Habitus in Authoritarian Country: The Meso-level Policy Enactment 4. The Geographical Distribution of SFCUs in China: Selective Local Enactment of National Policies 5. “Regulated but not Obedient to Rules”: Local Creativity and Innovation in Policy Enactment 6. Bourdieusian Critical Policy Analysis: Rethinking the Concept of Habitus

Biography

Xiao Han is an assistant professor in the Department of International Education, at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research is trans-disciplinary-based, focusing on critical policy analysis, international/transnational education, and Foucault/Bourdieu studies. Her works have been published in international journals such as Journal of Education Policy, Higher Education, and Policy and Society.

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