| Teacher professionalism in educational reform: The experiences of Hong Kong and Shanghai M Lai, LNK Lo Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 37 (1), 53-68, 2007 | 117 | 2007 |
| Teacher professionalism under the recent reform of performance pay in Mainland China L Wang, M Lai, LNK Lo Prospects 44, 429-443, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
| Challenges to the work life of academics: The experience of a renowned university in the Chinese mainland M Lai Higher Education Quarterly 64 (1), 89-111, 2010 | 59 | 2010 |
| Analysis of job satisfaction of university professors from nine Chinese universities P Du, M Lai, LNK Lo Frontiers of Education in China 5, 430-449, 2010 | 54 | 2010 |
| Struggling to handle teaching and research: A study on academic work at select universities in the Chinese Mainland M Lai, P Du, L Li Teaching in Higher Education 19 (8), 966-979, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| Teacher development under curriculum reform: A case study of a secondary school in mainland China M Lai International Review of Education 56, 613-631, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Educational Leadership on the Chinese Mainland: A Case Study of Two Secondary Schools in Beijing. M Lai, L Wang, W Shen London Review of Education 15 (2), 317-328, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Decentralization and social partnership: The development of vocational education at Shanghai and Shenzhen in China M Lai, LNK Lo Educational Research for Policy and Practice 5, 101-120, 2006 | 38 | 2006 |
| The impact of reform policies on teachers' work and professionalism in the Chinese Mainland LNK Lo, M Lai, L Wang The work and lives of teachers in China, 41-62, 2014 | 33 | 2014 |
| Perceived workplace competences at three sites on the Chinese Mainland M Lai, LNK Lo Journal of Vocational Education and Training 60 (2), 189-204, 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| The changing work lives of academics: The experience of a regional university in the Chinese Mainland M Lai, LNK Lo Higher Education Policy 20, 145-167, 2007 | 23 | 2007 |
| Challenges faced by Chinese academics in the academic heartland M Lai Journal of Further and Higher education 34 (2), 271-290, 2010 | 21 | 2010 |
| Academic work within a mode of mixed governance: perspectives of university professors in the research context of western China L Li, M Lai, LNK Lo Asia Pacific Education Review 14, 307-314, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Performing to expectations: Teachers' dilemmas in East Asia and in Chinese societies LNK Lo, M Lai, SY Chen The Routledge international handbook of teacher and school development, 19-32, 2012 | 18 | 2012 |
| The changing work life of academics: a comparative study of a renowned and a regional university in the Chinese Mainland M Lai The Australian Educational Researcher 40, 27-45, 2013 | 17 | 2013 |
| Struggling to balance various stakeholders’ perceptions: The work life of ideo-political education teachers in China M Lai, LNK Lo Higher education 62, 333-349, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Restricted opportunities under employment reform: the experiences of select universities in the Chinese Mainland M Lai, P Du, LNK Lo Higher Education Research & Development 35 (3), 516-530, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Decentralisation and the development of vocational education in China M Lai, LNK Lo China: An International Journal 4 (2), 287-301, 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
| Early career researchers’ perceptions of collaborative research in the context of academic capitalism on the Chinese Mainland M Lai, L Li Higher Education Research & Development 39 (7), 1474-1487, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Learning to work in China's leading metropolis LNK Lo, M Lai, J Xiao Teachers College Record 107 (6), 1335-1369, 2005 | 7 | 2005 |
