Ten years of curriculum reform in China: A soft knowledge perspective

Education Reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 161-184

  Seah, Wee Tiong ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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