Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, China, and Emeritus Professor in Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the executive editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Preface

Part 1: The Chinese Dream
1. Introduction: From National Humiliation to World Power
2. The Path to Chinese Modernity: Philosophical and Historical Narratives of the Chinese Dream
3. The Chinese Dream: Xi Jinping thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era
4. China Open, America Closed (with Tien-Hui Chiang)

Part 2: The American Dream5. Conflicting Narratives of the American Dream: Obama's Equality of Opportunity and Trump's "Make America Great Again"
The Emergent Chinese Techno-State
6. China's double first-class university strategy: ¿¿¿ (with Tina Besley)
7. Social governance, education and socialist rule of law in China (with Zhu Hongwen)
8. Trade wars, technology transfer, and the future Chinese techno-state

Part 3: Future Challenges
9. 'Intelligent capitalism' and the disappearance of labour (with Zhao Wei)
10. Technological Unemployment: Educating for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Postscript: Educating the Future
Index

This edited collection is based on a series of articles written by Michael A Peters as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory to explore the concept of The Chinese Dream first introduced by President Xi in 2012. This seventh volume in the Editor's Choice series provides a philosophical and historical analysis of The Chinese Dream by analyzing its major intersecting narratives - liberal, Confucian and Marxist. With chapters covering higher education strategy, social governance, socialist rule of law, the US-China trade war, technological unemployment and the emergence of the Chinese techno-state, this volume also offers an introduction to Chinese philosophy and history, and its narrative re-crafting that presents China as a global power. The author calls this process and the emerging Chinese narratives 'Educating the Future'.