Gerard A Postiglione
Biographic Data
| ID | 606575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard A Postiglione |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Postiglione |
| SIGNATURE | POSTIGLIONE G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7543-2578 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 244 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Media Coverage of Chinese International Campuses in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
This study examines the portrayal of Chinese international campuses in Europe as covered by European and Chinese media. By conducting a comparative analysis of 104 news reports, the research seeks to understand the role of media in shaping Europe-China higher education cooperation. The findings reveal that the Fudan University in Budapest Hungary was primarily portrayed as a political endeavor, characterized by a conflict frame; the Peking Univer…
Untangling the dominant culture in China’s elite universities
Western literature has shown that elite universities are not culturally inclusive, presuming that these institutions predominantly reflect the culture of the affluent middle class. While cultural inclusion of socioeconomically disadvantaged students is a globally relevant issue, the overarching presumption does not necessarily apply to non-Western societies. This article reconsiders this assumption in the Chinese context, addressing the lack of s…
The renovation of higher education in the Guangdong‐Hong Kong‐Macau Greater Bay Area
Since the start of Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening in 1978, China experimented with a variety of regional development initiatives. The success of the first Four Special Economic Zones of Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Xiamen, and Shantou was followed by three more Special Economic Zones including Hainan, Shanghai Pudong, and Tianjin Binhai. By 2016, China had established three world-class regional clusters, each with top-tier universities. These clusters i…
Factors fostering and hindering research collaboration with doctoral students among academics in Hong Kong
Living in uncertainty: The Covid-19 pandemic and higher education in Hong Kong
Amongst all jurisdictions, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China has been one of the most effective in limiting cases of COVID-19, despite being one of the first places to be affected by the pandemic in early 2020. In the months since the first case was confirmed, COVID-19 has affected all aspects of Hong Kong society, including the higher education sector. In this collective reflective essay, we describe the effects of these unexp…
Education and Society in Hong Kong: Toward One Country and Two Systems: Toward One Country and Two Systems
This book investigates the implications of the return of sovereignty in 1997 to China on the Hong Kong education system. The major issues examined include the social, historical, and international context; the legitimacy of educational policy and the challenge of bringing up citizens in China; the present and future role of education in social class and gender stratification; the use of Putonghua and English in schools; and finally the comparison…
Rural Students in a Chinese Top-Tier University: Family Background, School Effects, and Academic Performance
New preferential policies in China promise to increase the number of rural students entering top-tier universities, where there is a wider path to a higher social status. While a substantial body of literature has investigated rural students’ trajectories to university, there is a dearth of systematic empirical studies on the academic success of rural students in colleges and universities. This study seek to address this gap by examining the acad…
Hong Kong's Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions
The Hong Kong Reader: Passage to Chinese Sovereignty
This paperback reader provides the student and general reader with easy access to the major issues of the Hong Kong transition crisis. Contributors include both editors, as well as Frank Ching, Berry F. Hsu, Reginald Yin-wang Kwok, Peter Kwong, Julian Y.M. Leung, Ronald Skeldon, Alvin Y. So, Yun-wing Sung, and James T.H. Tang - the majority of whom live and work in Hong Kong and experience the transition firsthand, personally and professionally
Hong Kong’s Cross-System University Partnerships
The authors examine the special case of Hong Kong higher education’s institutional partnerships in the Chinese mainland. After noting the rise of cross-system university partnership in Asia, it provides a neoinstitutional perspective on the differences between the two China higher education systems. Finally, a case study of the experience of the longest-running Hong Kong campus partnership on the Chinese mainland is discussed and analyzed. Result…
Guanxi and school success: An ethnographic inquiry of parental involvement in rural China
This study examines the differential patterns of school success of rural students as a result of China’s market transition. The process dimension, how families from different social backgrounds within rural society get involved in rural schooling and how this contributes to the inequality of school success within rural society, is investigated. The data analysis suggests that schools as institutions provide few official channels for rural parents…
Ethnicity and Educational Achievement
Multicultural China: A Statistical Yearbook (2014)
China’s Minorities Without Written Scripts: The Case of Education Access among the Dongxiang
The Chinese state sees language as an essential determinant in ethnic minority schooling. The use of minority language as a medium of instruction is viewed as a way to increase attendance rates and strengthen socialization into a national ideology. However, the policies differ for those ethnic minorities with or without a commonly used written script. Among the minorities without a script are the 300,000 strong Dongxiang, an ethnic group with the…
Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
China's Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony
China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At present integrationist policies predominate, notably in the education system, where instruction in minority languages is being edged out in favour of instruction …
China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development
Anchoring globalization in Hong Kong's research universities: Network Agents, Institutional Arrangements, and Brain Circulation
International competition drives research universities to find ways to anchor globalization for academic productivity and innovation through cross-border collaboration. This article examines the case of pre- and post-colonial Hong Kong and how its universities transited from undergraduate institutions to highly ranked research universities within 30 years. While this is attributed to an enabling environment of institutional autonomy, open borders…
A Few Words from the Guest Editors
Representations of ethnic minorities in China's university media
This paper examines the representation of ethnic minorities in China through a review of campus newspapers, a major print medium in which universities exercise power over the discourse of cultural recognition. Three universities attended by minority students were selected. A two-dimensional mode (content and configuration) is established to analyze ethnic representations. A combination of content analysis and discourse analysis is used to categor…
China's International Partnerships and Cross-Border Cooperation: Editor's Introduction
Dislocated Education: The Case of Tibet
Tibet's Relocated Schooling: Popularization Reconsidered
China has popularized relocated boarding schools for Tibetans in China. This paper examines the origin and development of these neidi schools, and the perspectives of their graduates. Despite their popularity among Tibetan households, this paper argues that their sustainability over the longer term is less certain
Making Tibetans in China: The Educational Challenges of Harmonious Multiculturalism
This discussant paper focuses on education in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), and provides a background to situate the articles that follow about education in selected Tibetan communities of China and India. It also provides a brief review of education policies concerning free basic education, bilingual education, and hinterland boarding schools. The paper argues that while enrolment rates in most parts of the TAR continue to rise, schools p…
Making globalization work for Chinese higher education by building bridges between internationalization and multiculturalism
The rapid expansion of higher education in China is bringing together two phenomena, internationalization and multiculturalism. This study explores the question of what Chinese universities are doing to bridge the gap between these two. Three types of higher education institutions attended by minority students are selected: a university under the governance of an ethnic autonomous region, located in Inner Mongolia; a university under the Central …
China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development
Dislocated Education: The Case of Tibet
Making Tibetans in China: The Educational Challenges of Harmonious Multiculturalism
This discussant paper focuses on education in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), and provides a background to situate the articles that follow about education in selected Tibetan communities of China and India. It also provides a brief review of education policies concerning free basic education, bilingual education, and hinterland boarding schools. The paper argues that while enrolment rates in most parts of the TAR continue to rise, schools p…
From Ethnic segregation to impact integration: State schooling and identity construction for rural Tibetans
This paper examines the context of ethnic identity formation in schools for rural Tibetan children. It reviews rural primary education within Tibet and the secondary education for Tibetans in boarding schools across China. Data are presented on policies, student recruitment, curriculum, teachers and the campus environment, as they impact on students' identity formation. Although there is little that is multicultural about the learning process in …
Representations of ethnic minorities in China's university media
This paper examines the representation of ethnic minorities in China through a review of campus newspapers, a major print medium in which universities exercise power over the discourse of cultural recognition. Three universities attended by minority students were selected. A two-dimensional mode (content and configuration) is established to analyze ethnic representations. A combination of content analysis and discourse analysis is used to categor…
Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
Tibet's Relocated Schooling: Popularization Reconsidered
China has popularized relocated boarding schools for Tibetans in China. This paper examines the origin and development of these neidi schools, and the perspectives of their graduates. Despite their popularity among Tibetan households, this paper argues that their sustainability over the longer term is less certain
China's national minorities and educational change
Education in Rural Tibet: Development, Problems and Adaptations
Education is a strategic component for accelerating Tibet's development. Yet attendance rates still lag behind the rest of China. Data gathered in villages of two counties is used to examine how home, school and community factors affect school participation. It is argued that despite the abolition of school fees and the provision of boarding schools in China for graduates of primary schools in Tibet, the dropout rates in rural Tibet remain high l…
China's Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony
China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At present integrationist policies predominate, notably in the education system, where instruction in minority languages is being edged out in favour of instruction …
Household perspectives on school attendance in rural Tibet
This study explores household perspectives on school access at the village level in rural Tibet. Data from two rural areas are compared. This paper argues that despite abolition of all school fees, the use of Tibetan as a medium of instruction, the provision of boarding schools, and other incentives, dropout rates in rural areas remain high. This is largely due to the opportunity costs associated with removing a child from the household labor for…
Living in uncertainty: The Covid-19 pandemic and higher education in Hong Kong
Amongst all jurisdictions, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China has been one of the most effective in limiting cases of COVID-19, despite being one of the first places to be affected by the pandemic in early 2020. In the months since the first case was confirmed, COVID-19 has affected all aspects of Hong Kong society, including the higher education sector. In this collective reflective essay, we describe the effects of these unexp…
Guanxi and school success: An ethnographic inquiry of parental involvement in rural China
This study examines the differential patterns of school success of rural students as a result of China’s market transition. The process dimension, how families from different social backgrounds within rural society get involved in rural schooling and how this contributes to the inequality of school success within rural society, is investigated. The data analysis suggests that schools as institutions provide few official channels for rural parents…
Rural Students in a Chinese Top-Tier University: Family Background, School Effects, and Academic Performance
New preferential policies in China promise to increase the number of rural students entering top-tier universities, where there is a wider path to a higher social status. While a substantial body of literature has investigated rural students’ trajectories to university, there is a dearth of systematic empirical studies on the academic success of rural students in colleges and universities. This study seek to address this gap by examining the acad…
Anchoring globalization in Hong Kong's research universities: Network Agents, Institutional Arrangements, and Brain Circulation
International competition drives research universities to find ways to anchor globalization for academic productivity and innovation through cross-border collaboration. This article examines the case of pre- and post-colonial Hong Kong and how its universities transited from undergraduate institutions to highly ranked research universities within 30 years. While this is attributed to an enabling environment of institutional autonomy, open borders…
Ethnic Minority Teacher Education in Guizhou Province
Ethnic minority education is an integral part of education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Educational policies for ethnic minority regions provide for the development of their own educational programs, as well for the establishment of schools according to the characteristics of the ethnic minorities and the regions
China's International Partnerships and Cross-Border Cooperation: Editor's Introduction
Making globalization work for Chinese higher education by building bridges between internationalization and multiculturalism
The rapid expansion of higher education in China is bringing together two phenomena, internationalization and multiculturalism. This study explores the question of what Chinese universities are doing to bridge the gap between these two. Three types of higher education institutions attended by minority students are selected: a university under the governance of an ethnic autonomous region, located in Inner Mongolia; a university under the Central …
Guest Editor's Introduction
This issue contains selected papers written as part of a technical assistance (TA) project jointly run by the Department of Ethnic Minority Education (DEME) of the State Education Commission (SEdC) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ADB TA work was subcontracted to the Academy of Educational Development
The structuring of ethnicity in Hong Kong
China's national minorities and educational change
Education and Society in Hong Kong: Toward One Country and Two Systems
The Kong Becoming multi-volume series is published for an international readership. It aims to provide both expert analysis and the documentary basis for an informed understanding of Hong Kong's transition as a free society and capitalist economy toward socialist Chinese sovereignty under the One country, Two systems formula. This series explores the crucial dimensions of Hong Kong's current developments in this transitional process, as well as t…
Schooling in Hong Kong: Organization, Teaching and Social Context
This volume presents readers with background material for understanding more about the characteristics of Hong Kong education, as well as social and organizational perspectives that will contribute to informed discussion about key educational issues facing Hong Kong educators. The book is organized into three parts. The first part introduces the Hong Kong education system, and its relationship to the labour market, manpower planning and the polic…
Ethnic Minority Teacher Education in Guizhou Province
Ethnic minority education is an integral part of education in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Educational policies for ethnic minority regions provide for the development of their own educational programs, as well for the establishment of schools according to the characteristics of the ethnic minorities and the regions
Guest Editor's Introduction
This issue contains selected papers written as part of a technical assistance (TA) project jointly run by the Department of Ethnic Minority Education (DEME) of the State Education Commission (SEdC) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ADB TA work was subcontracted to the Academy of Educational Development
From Ethnic segregation to impact integration: State schooling and identity construction for rural Tibetans
This paper examines the context of ethnic identity formation in schools for rural Tibetan children. It reviews rural primary education within Tibet and the secondary education for Tibetans in boarding schools across China. Data are presented on policies, student recruitment, curriculum, teachers and the campus environment, as they impact on students' identity formation. Although there is little that is multicultural about the learning process in …
Education in Rural Tibet: Development, Problems and Adaptations
Education is a strategic component for accelerating Tibet's development. Yet attendance rates still lag behind the rest of China. Data gathered in villages of two counties is used to examine how home, school and community factors affect school participation. It is argued that despite the abolition of school fees and the provision of boarding schools in China for graduates of primary schools in Tibet, the dropout rates in rural Tibet remain high l…
Household perspectives on school attendance in rural Tibet
This study explores household perspectives on school access at the village level in rural Tibet. Data from two rural areas are compared. This paper argues that despite abolition of all school fees, the use of Tibetan as a medium of instruction, the provision of boarding schools, and other incentives, dropout rates in rural areas remain high. This is largely due to the opportunity costs associated with removing a child from the household labor for…
Chapter 4. Language in Tibetan Education: The Case of the Neidiban
Making Tibetans in China: The Educational Challenges of Harmonious Multiculturalism
This discussant paper focuses on education in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), and provides a background to situate the articles that follow about education in selected Tibetan communities of China and India. It also provides a brief review of education policies concerning free basic education, bilingual education, and hinterland boarding schools. The paper argues that while enrolment rates in most parts of the TAR continue to rise, schools p…
Making globalization work for Chinese higher education by building bridges between internationalization and multiculturalism
The rapid expansion of higher education in China is bringing together two phenomena, internationalization and multiculturalism. This study explores the question of what Chinese universities are doing to bridge the gap between these two. Three types of higher education institutions attended by minority students are selected: a university under the governance of an ethnic autonomous region, located in Inner Mongolia; a university under the Central …
China's International Partnerships and Cross-Border Cooperation: Editor's Introduction
Dislocated Education: The Case of Tibet
Tibet's Relocated Schooling: Popularization Reconsidered
China has popularized relocated boarding schools for Tibetans in China. This paper examines the origin and development of these neidi schools, and the perspectives of their graduates. Despite their popularity among Tibetan households, this paper argues that their sustainability over the longer term is less certain
A Few Words from the Guest Editors
Representations of ethnic minorities in China's university media
This paper examines the representation of ethnic minorities in China through a review of campus newspapers, a major print medium in which universities exercise power over the discourse of cultural recognition. Three universities attended by minority students were selected. A two-dimensional mode (content and configuration) is established to analyze ethnic representations. A combination of content analysis and discourse analysis is used to categor…
China's Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony
China has huge ethnic minorities – over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million. Over time China’s policies towards minority languages have varied, changing from policies which have accommodated minority languages to policies which have encouraged integration. At present integrationist policies predominate, notably in the education system, where instruction in minority languages is being edged out in favour of instruction …
China's National Minority Education: Culture, Schooling, and Development
Anchoring globalization in Hong Kong's research universities: Network Agents, Institutional Arrangements, and Brain Circulation
International competition drives research universities to find ways to anchor globalization for academic productivity and innovation through cross-border collaboration. This article examines the case of pre- and post-colonial Hong Kong and how its universities transited from undergraduate institutions to highly ranked research universities within 30 years. While this is attributed to an enabling environment of institutional autonomy, open borders…
Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia
Ethnicity and Educational Achievement
Multicultural China: A Statistical Yearbook (2014)
China’s Minorities Without Written Scripts: The Case of Education Access among the Dongxiang
The Chinese state sees language as an essential determinant in ethnic minority schooling. The use of minority language as a medium of instruction is viewed as a way to increase attendance rates and strengthen socialization into a national ideology. However, the policies differ for those ethnic minorities with or without a commonly used written script. Among the minorities without a script are the 300,000 strong Dongxiang, an ethnic group with the…
Hong Kong's Reunion with China: The Global Dimensions
Political science (30 works) · Sociology (28 works) · China (24 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (15 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Higher education (10 works) · Ethnic group (9 works) · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities (9 works)