HOME
Child Research in Japan & Asia
Education Today in Asia


People's Republic of China

2005/3/4
Document links (People's Republic of China)

Feeding practice of infants and their correlates in urban areas of Beijing, China (PDF)
By LIUBAI LI, SHUN LI, MOAZZAM ALI AND HIROSHI USHIJIMA
Pediatrics International Volume 45, 2003

Wishing for Dragon Children: Ironies and Contradictions in China's Education Reform and the Chinese Diaspora's Disappointments with Australian Education (PDF)
By Jianguo Wu and Michael Singh
The Australian Educational Researcher, Volume 31, Number 2, August 2004/11/22
Available within Australian Association for Research in Education

Supplementary readings for Wishing for Dragon
Culturalist Approaches to the Relational Study of Children's Education in China and Australia

By Jianguo Wu and Michael Singh
Schooling for an Emancipated Society or for a Disciplined Society?
By Jianguo Wu and Michael Singh

First steps to literacy in Chinese classrooms
By John E. Ingulsrud and Kate Allen
Current Issues in Comparative Education, Volume 5, Number 2 / May 12, 2003
Available within Teachers College, Columbia University

Look to the East - Gain A New Perspective: Understand Cultural Differences, Appreciate Cultural Diversity
By Nancy K. Freeman
Early Childhood Education Journal, Winter 1998.
Available within Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)




Organization links (People's Republic of China)

CIA World Factbook 2004, China

OECD, Education, Information by Country, China

UNESCO, Institute for Statistics, Country Profile, China

Ministry of Education (available in Chinese only)

Center on Chinese Education, (CoCE) Teachers College, Columbia Univ.
CoCe is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of education in China and to educational exchange between the United States and China. It seeks to achieve this mission through three categories of activities: research and development, education and training, as well as outreach and exchange.

China Education and Research Network (CERNET)
CERNET is the first nationwide education and research computer network in China. The CERNET project is funded by the Chinese government and directly managed by the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is constructed and operated by Tsinghua and other leading universities.

China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE)
CEAIE, affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China, is China's nationwide non-governmental organization conducting international educational exchanges. It was founded in July, 1981 with the approval of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In 1991, it was registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the PRC.

China Scholarship Council (CSC)
CSC is a non-profit institution with legal person status affiliated with the Ministry of Education. The objective of the CSC is to provide, in accordance with the law, statutes and relevant principles and policies of China, financial assistance to the Chinese citizens wishing to study abroad and to the foreign citizens wishing to study in China in order to develop the educational, scientific and technological, and cultural exchanges and economic and trade cooperation between China and other countries, to strengthen the friendship and understanding between Chinese people and the people of all other countries, and to promote world peace and the socialist modernization drive in China.

Wah Ching Center of Research on Education in China (CREC), University of Hong Kong
CREC, established in 1998, is built upon many years of contact, research, and experience with a multitude of educational institutions all across China. The CREC team is composed of international specialists in education who are also well-versed in Chinese culture, tradition, and language. The CREC team aims to apply their international expertise to the study of education in China and to act as a bridge between researchers in China and abroad.


Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Child Research Net, All Rights Reserved.