This is an incomplete list of research publications. I include what I think representative research results published recently on or related to China private education. If you know or if you have any meaningful research work on this subject and if you wish to have it added here, and/or if you have any comments, kindly please hit "Your Feedback?" either here or after the list .

    Bi, C. (1997). Exploring the practice and theory of Chinese private education. Chinese Education and Society 30, No. 1, 23-27.
    Cheng, H (1997). Shopping seats in a school market. Online Proceedings of 1997 Midwest Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Urbana: UIUC, 1997. Available: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/MWCIES97/index.html.
    Cheng, K. M. (1993). Zhongguo dalu jiaoyu shikuang [The true situation of Chinese education in mainland China]. Taipei, Taiwan: Taiwan Commercial Press.
    Deng, P. (1997). Private education in modern China. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
    Gao, H. Y. (1997). A random discussion of the protection of the lawful rights of people serviced by private schools. Chinese Education and Society 30, No. 1, 59-62.
    Epstein, I. (1991), Chinese education: Problems, policies and prospects. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.
    Hayhoe, R. (1992). Education and Modernization: The Chinese Experience. New York: Pergamon Press.
    K. M. Cheng (1994). Issues in decentralization: what the reform in China tells. Educational Research, 8, 794-828.
     Kwong, J. (1997). The reemergence of private schools in socialist China. Comparative Education Review, 8, 244-259.
    Lai, J. H. (1996). The concept of private schools and their proper appellation. Chinese Education and Society, Vol. 29, No. 5.
    Levin, H. M. (1987). Education as a Public and Private Good. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 628-641.
    Lewin, K., Little, A., Xu, H., and Zheng, J. (1994). Educational innovation in China: Tracing the impact of the 1985 reforms. England: Longman.
    Mok, K. (1997). Private challenges to public dominance: The resurgence of private education in the Pearl River Delta. Comparative Education, 33, 43-60.
    Mok. K. (1997). Privatization or marketization: Educational development in post-Mao China. International Review of Education, 43, Nos. 5-6, 547-567.
    Paine, L. (1991). Reforming Teachers. In Iving Epstein (Ed.), Chinese education: Problems, policies and prospects (pp. 238-243). New York: Garland.
    Pepper, S. (1990). China's education reform in the 1980s: Policies, issues, and historical perspectives. Berkley, University of California at Berkley: Institute of East Asian Studies.
    Pepper, S. (1996). Radicalism and education reform in 20th century China: The search for an ideal development model. London: Cambridge University Press.
    Robinson, J. (1986). Decentralization, money and the case of people-run schools in people's China. Comparative Education Review, 30, 189-201.
    Robinson, J. (1991). Minban schools in Deng’s Era. In Iving Epstein (Ed.), Chinese education: Problems, policies and prospects (pp. 163-171). New York: Garland.
  Sautman, B. (1995). Politicization, hyperpolitization and Depoliticization of Chinese education. Comparative Education Review, 669-689.
     Tsang, M. (1994). Costs of education in China: Issues of resources mobilization, equality, equity and efficiency. Education Economics, Vol. 2, No. 3.
    Wang, D. H. (1997). Minban zhongxiao xue: wenti yu duice (Private elementary and secondary schools: Problems and solutions). Renmin Jiaoyu (People's Education), 5, 12-14.
    Wang, Z.  L. (1996). The analysis of communist China's universalization of 9-year compulsory education. Studies of Communist Problems, 8, 34-35.
     Wei, Y. & Zhang, G. (1995). A historical prospective on non-governmental higher education in China. Paper presented at the International Conference of Private Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific Region, November.
    Wu, Z. K. (1996). Overview of current Chinese private school development. China education and society, 2, 1995.
    Xi, L. (1996). To whom are the school door open? China education and society, 5, 1995.
    Xu G. Y. (1997). Exploring certain theoretical issues in regard to private schools. China education and society, 30. No. 1, 41-51.
     Zhang, D. C. (1997). Brief Introduction to China Private Higher Education Institutions. Beijing: China Agricultural Science and Technology Press.
    Zou, J. (1997). Private Schooling in China: Assumptions, Complications, and Implications. Online Proceedings of 1996 Midwest Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Urbana: UIUC, 1997. Available: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/MWCIES97/index.html.