Ailei Xie Author & Editor

Ailei Xie is Professor at the School of Education, South China Normal University. His research focuses on educational inequality and social mobility in contemporary China. His recent work examines the moral economy of parenting and middle-class educational anxiety. He has published extensively in leading Chinese and international journals.

Cheng Zhong is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Sociology of Education, Nanjing Normal University, China. He has a long-standing interest in middle-class parents’ educational involvement, aspirations, anxieties, and reflexivity. He has published in peer-reviewed, high-status international journals such as the British Journal of Sociology of Education and the International Journal of Educational Research.