Education in China: Contents

Education in China: Educational History, Models, and Initiatives

Introduction by Zha Qiang

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

• Confucius (James D. Sellmann)
• Mencius (James D. Sellmann)
• Mozi (James D. Sellmann)
• 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)