This article analyzes a critique of Dewey, written in 1975 by Chou Jung-hsin, China's Minister of Education, showing that Chou was utilizing a traditional Chinese technique of "attack by analogy" and that his real target was the ultra-leftism in Chinese education resulting from the Cultural Revolution. (Editor/SJL)

This book uses primary sources and personal experience in the Chinese school system to examine the evolution of non-governmental schools in China between 1895 and 1995. The book gives an overview of private education in pre-modern China, and discusses the growth of modern private schools in the past century as part of the Chinese people's struggle…

This study of experiments with a new type of educational institution in Communist China is based upon an analysis of materials from Chinese Communist newspapers and periodicals. Reliance upon a discriminating use of such materials is necessitated by the lack of impartial first hand evaluations of these new institutions by qualified outside…

Discusses fu, a flowery form of rhetorical writing developed in China during the Han Dynasty. Provides historical background and criticisms of the genre. Emphasizes the feminine principle of fu rhetoric with its resort to pleasure, ornamentation, and flattery. Argues that what is considered love poetry was actually political allegory. (DK)