This issue provides topics and titles of contemporary reference works on Chinese education. Most of the material provided is translated from pages 88 through 114 of the China Education Almanac, and describes the administration and funding of general education in China. (JDH)

Literacy in China is mainly concerned with illiteracy in rural areas. Therefore, reforming literacy education is largely a problem of how to eliminate rural literacy within the general framework of reform in contemporary China. From 1949 to 1988, the illiteracy rate among the population decreased from 80 percent to 20 percent. There are still…