"Empathy" is a common educational expectation among lower-class families, as well as a natural response by children. Through analysis of the growth narratives of a group of rural children who were born after the Opening and Reforms and achieved higher educational attainment, this study found that their "empathy" carried plural…

The teaching research system was established after the founding of New China in emulation of the Soviet Union for the purpose of learning, research and teaching management, with the aim of promoting improvement in the caliber of primary and secondary school teaching and guaranteeing the quality of education. The system played an important role in…

Based on the data collected in a one-year long fieldwork in Zhong, a county located in middle part of China, this article reconsiders the concept of "useless schooling," which was proposed in recent studies on the perceptions of value of education among lower-class rural residents in China. It calls for a understanding of those changes…