Wai-Chung received her PhD in music education from the Institute of Education at the University of London, and is now a professor in the Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her substantive research interests include the education curricula, the sociology of music and the comparative study of East Asian music education. Her research has focused on interlinked areas ... Read moreof development, education policy, and reform in school education, as well as on values in education across school curricula in Chinese contexts, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Wai-Chung is a frequent contributor to leading international research journals in the fields of education, music education, and cultural studies, and has been published in such top-ranked journals as the Social History, British Journal of Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, and Music Education Research. Her book, School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (Brill, 2011) examines recent reforms and innovations in school music education within these changing Chinese societies, and compares, from a socio-political perspective, how music education in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei has adjusted to the forces of globalization, localization, and Sinification, and complex relationship between cultural diversity and political change in these three localities. Show Less