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Chinese college withdraws health textbook amid outcry over homophobic content
In a section about homosexuality, the book accuses gay people of “violating the law of nature” and “bringing instability into society.” It also depicts homosexuals as “unhealthy” and “suffering” individuals who “have shorter life expectancy than normal people” and are “more prone to abuse drugs” because of their “lack of willpower.”
September 23, 2020 Source: The China Project
iHuman online education company files for IPO in New York
Digital and remote learning is booming worldwide and many of the most ambitious startups in the space are in China.
September 11, 2020 Source: The China Project
Double alienation: A Chinese student in polarized America
Through radically different experiences — first in Grayson, Louisiana, and then at the liberal arts college Oberlin in Ohio — Xiaoqian Zhu has had a close and personal look at the ways America is divided. “In the end,” she writes, “both places made me feel that I simply cannot fit in.” And yet, she has not given up trying, spurred on by the promise that we can be better.
August 20, 2020 Source: The China Project
Chinese international students feel unwanted in the U.S. — and back home
Facing unprecedented Sinophobia in the U.S. and a president who antagonizes them, Chinese international students have been trying to find ways to return to China. But people there haven’t been exactly welcoming, either.
August 11, 2020 Source: The China Project
Nanjing’s top high school goes back to emphasis on testing after parents protest about low exam scores
Creativity does not get you into a good university! That seems to be the message from parents of children at the top high school in east China’s city of Nanjing, which recently reversed plans to reduce the emphasis on high test scores.
August 5, 2020 Source: The China Project
New perspectives on China digital marketing
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July 29, 2020 Source: The China Project
More than 10 million Chinese students take gaokao exam in spite of floods, earthquakes, COVID-19
Neither COVID-19 nor floods nor earthquakes could stop China from organizing the nationwide college entrance examination or gaokao, which many young Chinese say is the most stressful test in the world.
July 9, 2020 Source: The China Project
Censorship fears and vampire hours: Chinese international students, Zoom, and remote learning
Three Emory University researchers recently conducted a survey — interviewing more than 20 Chinese international students and instructors — to learn about the unique challenges and concerns of Chinese students studying in the U.S. during COVID-19.
June 30, 2020 Source: The China Project
Educational equality in China: How online learning during coronavirus has changed the status quo
For perhaps the first time, all students in China — rich and poor, urban and rural — have equal access to classes with the most…
February 20, 2020 Source: The China Project
Girls-only education charity program under fire for financing boys
Girls-only education charity program under fire for financing boys
December 18, 2019 Source: The China Project
Xinjiang education reform and the eradication of Uyghur-language books
The “bilingual” education system introduced over the past decade in Xinjiang is better characterized as an attempt to transform minority education systems in the region…
October 2, 2019 Source: The China Project
‘Drops of one-fifth or more’ in Chinese student enrollment at American universities
The Associated Press reports that U.S.-China political tensions, and increasing visa uncertainties under an American administration hostile to foreigners and Chinese students in particular, have led to dramatic…
September 25, 2019 Source: The China Project
Education in China: How the gaokao exam shapes Chinese students’ lives and futures
For high-school graduates across China, two days in June mark some of the most life-changing moments in their lives. That’s when the gaokao, China’s university entrance exam, takes place. Often dubbed as the most grueling and formidable exam in the world, the gaokao determines which universities its takers are able to attend and can have lifelong consequences on Chinese students, whose higher-education experience, or lack thereof, will affect their job prospects and social mobility.
August 14, 2019 Source: The China Project
China Business Corner: Introducing Yinyu, the virtual KTV app whose users are singing up a storm
Happy New Year and best wishes from China Business Corner! We’re a weekly window into Chinese-language coverage of business, technology, and the broader economy, brought to…
January 3, 2019 Source: The China Project
Chinese Corner: The education gap, the spectacular rise and fall of Ofo, and a sexual harassment victim speaks out
Chinese Corner: The education gap, the spectacular rise and fall of Ofo, and a sexual harassment victim speaks out
December 21, 2018 Source: The China Project
Live-streaming offers possible solution to education inequality in China
Live-streaming offers possible solution to education inequality in China
December 14, 2018 Source: The China Project
China’s biggest private education company buys an English school
Bright Scholar Education Holdings (博实乐教育控 bóshílè jiàoyù) was founded in Foshan, Guangdong Province, in 1994, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year…
October 2, 2018 Source: The China Project
Kuora: The political life of Chinese students overseas
This week’s column comes from one of Kaiser’s answers originally posted to Quora on November 17, 2017. Rare as it might be, how are the Chinese…
September 17, 2018 Source: The China Project
Closing down foreign education partnerships
Sino-foreign partnership programs at universities and joint venture schools are under scrutiny from the Ministry of Education. Despite their popularity, Sixth Tone says such schools and…
July 5, 2018 Source: The China Project
Report: Chinese university graduates’ average annual starting salary is barely $8,000
A recent Chinese state media report revealed that the majority of university graduates in China have starting salaries of 4,317 yuan per month ($674), a number…
June 13, 2018 Source: The China Project