of the free compulsory education reform in rural China / Yun Xiao, Li Li and Liqiu Zhao -- New cooperative medical scheme …Primary school availability and middle school education in rural China / Li Li and Haoming Liu -- The long-run effects … and health expenditure in rural China -- Choice of doctor type and children's height in rural China. …

"Since China's reform and opening up in 1978, Zhejiang province has been one of the country's forerunners in economic …. This book provides systematic analysis of the reform and development in Zhejiang's rural area as a case study of China …'s reform and opening-up. It offers some of the best economic and governance practices developed over the past few decades in …

actors from the education authority use PISA as a tool to legitimize their reform stance. We adopted discourse and rhetorical … education authority and PISA team used PISA as an external assessment tool to legitimate the pre-existing education reform … measures, confirm its leadership, and appeal for the collective actions from other social groups in future reform agenda …