A growing body of research has documented the escalating popularity of religion among student populations in China's higher education settings. Despite the changes sustained by China's religious policies throughout the post-Mao era, the state has not abandoned its long-standing approach of cultivating citizenship through Marxist-Leninist-oriented…

This study examines the patterns and interplay of college students' political orientations and socialization toward citizenship and civil society in the Chinese sociopolitical context, alongside China's move to mass higher education. Data were collected from a nationwide survey conducted in 12 Chinese universities in 2007. The analytic framework…

Educational reforms in higher education since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

Educational reforms in higher education since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

Reports on a survey that evaluated the leadership system in ideological and political education presently in place in colleges and universities in Beijing, China. Describes the current system and suggests improvements that can be made. (GG)

The role of the engineering university in expanding the ranks of proletarian intellectuals is emphasized. (DE)

This paper reviews trends in political education in China and examines implications of the new market emphasis on political education in institutions of higher education. Trends toward increased academic openness and cross fertilization among academic fields after the Cultural Revolution are identified. Reforms during this period are seen to have…

Surveys the role of political and ideological education leaders among university students in China. Reports a study done at Beijing University that measured the amount of political education received by political leaders and measured opinions about political education work. Suggestions are proposed to improve attitudes concerning political…

The recent development of correspondence education in China is discussed and the contributions of correspondence education to the revolutionary struggle are assessed. (Author/DB)

Noting that, as a developing socialist society, China requires an educational system which develops in the individual both political loyalty and technical skill, the author surveys China's efforts, from 1949 to the present, to implement these two potentially conflicting educational objectives. (SJL)

Presents minutes of a discussion meeting held by Shanghai university students to describe and evaluate an agricultural and technical correspondence program in which they had taken part. Ways of relating the correspondence courses to the needs of a socialist economy are suggested. (Author/DB)

Since the 1950s, the politicization of Chinese education has reflected the Communist Party's macropolitical goal orientation. Because that orientation now is fixed on economic growth and modernization as the basis for political legitimacy, the current repoliticization of higher education is unlikely to intensify or generalize throughout the…

Described is a program of experimental correspondence courses for youth who have resettled in Hsien province. Topics discussed include curriculum, teaching staff, political intent, structure, and organization of the correspondence courses. (Author/DB)