Subject(s): School management and organization -- Decentralization - Educational change in China. -- Centralization and decentralization- changing governance in education -- Education reforms and changing education systems : Politics of decentralization- case study of school management reform in Hong Kong, centralization and decentralization in educational governance in Taiwan, social origins and development of Macau's decentralized education system, tomards centralization and decentralization in educational development in China in Shanghai, women's education in China's new socialist market economy -- Changing governance in higher education : Centralized decentralized of higher education in Singapore, centralization and decentralization in higher education- comparative study of Hong Kong and Taiwan, universities for knowledge economies- Hong Kong and Chinese mainland within globalization and decentralization, progress and paradoxes- new developments in China's higher education, beyond decentralization - changing roles of state in education