Table of Contents

Part I 1949 to 1989
CHAPTER 1 China’s Education: Achievements and Mistakes
CHAPTER 2 On Teachers
CHAPTER 3 Insight into Weariness-of-Study Psychology
CHAPTER 4 Malformed Combination
CHAPTER 5 Inadequate Educational Appropriations
CHAPTER 6 Worry About Moral Education
CHAPTER 7 Infantilism in Family Education
CHAPTER 8 Light of Hope
Part II 1990 to 2003
CHAPTER 9 China’s Education: Achievements and Problems
CHAPTER 10 Who Pays for Compulsory Education?
CHAPTER 11 Balanced Development: Varying Differences
CHAPTER 12 Reading: It Is Hard to Say I Love You
CHAPTER 13 Examination: A Thousand Sad Reasons
CHAPTER 14 On the Merits and Demerits of the Internet
CHAPTER 15 Privately Run Education: Where Is the Way?
CHAPTER 16 A Long-Term and Arduous Task
Part III 2004 to 2010
CHAPTER 17 Worry About the Starting Line: Problems of Preschool Education
CHAPTER 18 Injured Angels: The Problems of Elementary and Secondary School Students’ Physical Quality
CHAPTER 19 Adolescent Restlessness: Sex Education for Elementary and Secondary School Students
CHAPTER 20 No Life, No Education: Campus Safety
CHAPTER 21 To Whom Does School Open: The Craze for Choosing the Top Schools and the Schooling of Children of Rural Migrant Workers
CHAPTER 22 Where Is Tomorrow: Difficult Employment for College Graduates
CHAPTER 23 Answer to Qian Xuesen’s Question: University Reform and Talent Training
CHAPTER 24 China’s Education: From Expansion of Scale to Improvement of Quality
POSTSCRIPT: A SILENT REVOLUTION
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

About the Author

Zhu Yongxin is a member of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, vice chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD), and vice president of Chinese Society of Education (CSE). He also serves as a professor and PhD supervisor at Soochow University.

A sponsor of the New Education Experiment in China, Professor Zhu has won several awards for his influential work, including “60 great contributors in China’s Education of 60 years” (2009), “30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up: Person of the Year in China’s Education Area” (2008), “Top 10 News Figures in China’s Reform” (2007), and “Top 10 Elites in China’s Education” (2006).

Professor Zhu has published more than 400 articles on education both at home and abroad, and published over 30 books as well.