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Sociologists of education in East Asia have a long past in making personal communications and informal networks but a relatively short history in making regular contacts and formal exchanges in organizational contexts internationally. This column focuses on the cross-cultural networking endeavors commenced since the first decade of the twenty-first century by some members of the region, namely, Mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. The author goes along with the official documents of the “sociology of education” (or educational sociology) organizations in these countries or areas, including conference programs, meeting minutes, newsletters, online messages, and so on, to delineate the current accomplishments in instituting a sociology of education community in East Asia. As far as the future development is concerned, issues about how to enhance the community’s vitality are discussed in the final part, such as involving Korea, Hong Kong, and other members of East Asia, encouraging younger generation, female scholars, and those who of sociology backgrounds to participate more and promoting international collaborative studies.
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There is also a CPCSE under Chinese Sociological Association (CSA), but it did not convene its own annual meetings on a regular basis and was relatively inactive. It is, therefore, not discussed in this article.
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Unfortunately, due to the institutional regulations on both sides, it was not easy to carry out joint research projects, which was exactly why to date there was only one coauthored chapter: Chang and Zhang (2003). This chapter presents an introduction of the historical development of sociology of education in Mainland China and Taiwan to the international audience.
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The Department of Sociology of Peking University convened two international conferences on Sociology of Education, one of which was in March 2006 and the other July 2012. At these two conferences, no TASE delegations but rather individual scholars were invited from Taiwan.
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Chang, J.Cc. (2018). (Column 2) The East Asian Network in the Sociology of Education. In: Yonezawa, A., Kitamura, Y., Yamamoto, B., Tokunaga, T. (eds) Japanese Education in a Global Age. Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 46. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1528-2_16
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