Education in China: Educational History, Models, and Initiatives
Edited Zha Qiang, York University
Education in China, includes contributions by seventy-four international experts on Chinese education and provides unique coverage of learning at all levels and a fascinating historical perspective. Chinese students are known worldwide for their accomplishment and ambition, and education is profoundly valued in China. But these facts do not tell the whole story. Intellectuals were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) and only recently has a college education been accessible to a majority of Chinese high school graduates. Things are changing rapidly. China’s higher-education system is now the largest in the world, and the number of Chinese students in the United States is growing at twenty-five percent annually. Collaboration with Western scholars and universities is increasing. Governmental and philanthropic agencies are working to provide better education to students in the margins, including minority, poor, disabled, and rural students. Buy the book or click below for a selection of the chapters.
Part 1: History and Tradition
- Confucianism (James D. Sellmann)
- Confucian Ethics (James D. Sellmann)
- Confucianism-Revival (Daniel A. Bell)
- Neo-Confucianism (William T. De Barry)
- Hundred Schools of Thought (James D. Sellmann)
- Legalist School (Yu Qiyu)
- Old Prose Movement (Nirmal Dass)
- Shuyuan (Academies) (Tang Songlin)
- Hanlin Academy (Xu Yamin)
- Civil Service Exams (Benjamin Elman)
- Eight Legged Essays (Benjamin Elman)
- Four Books and Five Classics (James D. Sellmann)
- I Ching (Classic of Changes) (Richard J. Lynn)
- Zhong Yong (Doctrine of the Mean) (Nirmal Dass)
Part 2: Figures, Events, and Institutions
Figures
- Xunzi (Nirmal Dass)
- Laozi (James D. Sellmann)
- Zhuangzi (Zhao Guoping)
- Zhu Xi (Bryan W. Van Norden)
- Wang Yangming (Ruth Hayhoe)
- Rong Hong (Yung Wing) (Beatrice S. Barlett)
- Zhang Zhidong (Michael C. Lazich)
- Kang Youwei (Law Yuk-fun)
- Liang Qichao (Michael C. Lazich)
- Cai Yuanpei (Lu Yan)
- Hu Shi (Lu Yan)
- Liang Shuming (Zhuang Huajin)
- Tao Xingzhi (Yao Yusheng)
- Yen, Y. C. James (Charles W. Hayford)
- Needham, Joseph (Terence C. Russel)
- John Dewey and Chinese education (Mei Wu Hoyt)
- Mao Zedong and Education (John N. Hawkins)
Events
- Hundred Days Reform (Charles M. Dobbs)
- May Fourth Movement (David L. Kenley)
- Hundred Flowers Campaign (Stephanie Chung)
- Great Leap Forward (Dali L. Yang)
- Education and the Cultural Revolution (Liu Jian & Ruth Hayhoe)
- Red Guard Organizations (Margaret Sankey)
Institutions
- Academia Sinica (Chang Jui-te)
- Central University for Nationalities (Rebecca Clothey)
- Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Cassandra Cao)
- Fudan University (Heidi Ross)
- National Southwest Associated University (Li Manli)
- National Taiwan University (Chang Jui-te)
- Needham Research Institute
- Peking University (Chang Teh-Kuang)
- St. Johns University (Heidi Ross)
- Tsinghua University (Chang Teh-Kuang)
- University of Science and Technology of China (Zha Qiang)
Part 3: Contemporary Chinese Education
- Contemporary Education System (Heidi Ross)
- Adult Education (Jean W. Yan)
- Compulsory Education (Jean W. Yan)
- Distance Education (Lei Jing)
- Environmental Education (Ji Xia)
- Foreign Language Education (Qi Xiaoying)
- Gifted Education (Shane N. Phillipson)
- Management Education (Bernard M. Wolf & Rudi M. Lof)
- Minority Education (Stephen Bahry)
- Moral Education (Pan Suyan)
- Physical Education (Fan Hong)
- Private Education (Yan Fenqiao)
- Sexual Health Education (Alessandra Aresu)
- Special Education (Jean W. Yan)
- Teacher Education (Guo Shibao)
- Vocational Education (Ye Yiqu & Wu Xueping)
- Higher Education (Zha Qiang)
- Massification of Higher Education (Zha Qiang)
- Higher Education and Institutional Diversification (Hubert Ertl)
- Education Laws (Li Xiaobing)
- Educational Technology (Zhao Naxin)
- Digital Divide (Lei Jing)
- Gender Inequality in Education (Li Danke)
- Schooling and Migration (Liang Zai)
- School Choice (Xu Shijing)
- Project Hope (Jean W. Yan)
- CERNET (China Education and Research Network) (Liu Jian & Chen Zhiwen)
- National Higher Education Entrance Examination (Wang Yimin)
- Undergraduate Program Evaluation (Kai Jiang)
- University Rankings (Liu Niancai)
Part 4: Globalization and Internationalization of Chinese Education
- Missionary Education (Thomas P. Dolan)
- Self-Strengthening Movement (Charles M. Dobbs)
- Open Door Policy (Steven Phillips)
- Confucius Institutes
- Hopkins-Nanjing Center
- HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test) (Han Huamei)
- Brain Drain (Cao Cong)
- China Scholarship Council (Liu Jian)
- Chinese-Foreign Joint Ventures in Education (Osman Ozturgut)
- World-Class University Initiative (Kathryn Mohrman)
- China’s Contribution to Global Education (William T. De Bary)