ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the following three main properties of globalization: mobility, competition, and imbalance. Mobility is the most significant manifestation and the most fundamental property of globalization. Globalization transforms many types of competition into global ones, and gets wider regions involved into these global competitions. In such a world of mobility, competition, and imbalance, it seems that inequity, uncertainty, and insecurity are all unavoidable. Since the 19th century, especially during the mid-20th century, Western states have treated education as an investment which generates profits. A harmonious society with true democracy and freedom essentially would achieve balance in its social structure. The ancient Chinese society was constructed based upon a dual structure characterized by the distinctions and interactions between the political society and the indigenous society. Chinese education's function of social mobility is declining, the disadvantaged classes are in adverse positions both at the entrance and exit of education; mobility through education is increasingly hard to achieve.
