Chinese Education
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Christians and Education in China" (CS Quarterly, 2011 Summer).
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Christians and Education in China" (CS Quarterly, 2011 Summer).
Can alternative education work in China? What are the misconceptions and challenges?
Geography, economics and access all contribute to creating inequality in Chinese education.
China's history and culture are key factors that help create the environment for education in the country.
A discussion of the need for a social enterprise to be focused on sustainability in order to be effective.
There are numerous challenges that could derail China's march to super-power status including a collapse of the banking system, regional disintegration, environmental disaster, and military miscalculations. However, perhaps the most likely factor to prevent China's rise will be the one the government can least do anything about: demography. China, as always, has too many people; now, however, it is also lacking in females, youth, and sooner rather than later, a workforce to support its retired population.
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Looking Ahead in China" (ChinaSource, 2010 Fall).
Medical care and other social services are taking highly positive trends throughout China.
What are the possibilities regarding the future leadership of China?
Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler. Harper (New York: 2010), 438pp. ISBN 978-0-06-180409-0, $27.99.
Reviewed by Wayne Martindale
Jonathan reflects on his father's youth and his own youth as he looks ahead to the future of his infant son.
Several agencies have joined together to sponsor research on China's youth. Divided into three units of research, the first part, conducted in Changsha, has been completed. Following is a summary of the findings. In June, the research will be carried out in Chengdu and, towards the end of the summer, in a third city. The entire research project will be completed by the end of 2010.