There is no book that covers the same territory around curricula and teaching as Knowledge, Content, Curriculum and Didaktik. Deng draws on a wide variety of contemporary and classical English-language resources as well as less well- known – in the English-speaking world – but very important German-language resources. I believe Deng’s book constitutes a fundamental resource for discussions of both practical curriculum-making and teaching and educational and curriculum theory. Knowledge, Content, Curriculum and Didaktik will be a basic text wherever curricula and teaching are thought about and studied. Ian Westbury Emeritus Professor of Curriculum Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This book’s primary argument that questions of knowledge are central to curriculum is ancient but mostly ignored, even denigrated, in contemporary English-speaking literature. The originality of Deng’s take on these questions fows from his global experience and ability to cross-cultural lines to draw out the best in different traditions. He was educated in mainland China, studied in the USA, worked in Singapore and Hong Kong, and currently teaches in England. He knows and understands Asian, European and North American curricular traditions and has studied the best offered by each. There is no other book on curriculum with this rich intellectual history. F. Michael Connelly Emeritus Professor of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto This is a welcome and ambitious book which challenges those who work in the feld of curriculum studies, as well as the sociologists of education who have tried to reform it. The author’s advice to the former is that not only are there lessons to be learned from the sociologists concerning the neglect by mainstream curriculum studies of the question of knowledge and its acquisition, but that they need to extend their over-parochial focus and learn lessons from Europe and beyond, especially the German Didaktic tradition. The author’s recommendations for the