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Boshier, Roger – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2013
After Deng Xiaoping's 1978 reform and opening, foreigners had a chance to see adult education in China. As a result, many met Yao Zhongda, Chief of the Bureau of Workers' and Peasants Education. From 1921 onwards, adult education has been a vital corollary of Communist revolution. Although Yao's biography was extremely relevant to what foreigners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Biographies, Adult Educators
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Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Studies in Continuing Education, 2009
Prior to 1949 the Chinese Communist Party orchestrated innovative and participatory forms of adult education. This article concerns Madame Li Li, a leading Chinese Communist woman adult educator. Western delegates at the International Council for Adult Education 1984 Shanghai symposium on adult education were fascinated by Madame Li Li because,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Adult Educators, Adult Education