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

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Xiao Han (Department of International Education, The Education University of Hong Kong)

A Bourdieusian Analysis of Chinese Transnational Higher Education Policy Enactment

Policy Habitus

Xiao Han (Department of International Education, The Education University of Hong Kong)

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English

Routledge
30 May 2025

Society & culture: general; Social theory; Moral & social purpose of education; Educational strategies & policy; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific

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 moves away from the traditional centralization-decentralization model, or policy experiment hypothesis, to examine how Chinese local officials’ practices are simultaneously full of “invention and improvisation” and confined “within the constraints and limits initially set on its inventions”. By so doing, the book extends the application of Bourdieu’s thinking tools to the arena of critical policy analysis through the establishment of the internal structure to separate habitus and the practice it generated, thereby refuting any determinism or objectivism criticism to Bourdieu’s most contested concept habitus.

This book will be of great interest to Bourdieusian scholars with particular interests in higher education and sociologists of education more broadly.

By: Xiao Han (Department of International Education The Education University of Hong Kong)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781032692029
ISBN 10: 1032692022
Series: Bourdieu and Education of Asia Pacific
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 30 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.