Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

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by Yong Zhao


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  Index

  A

  Academic burden: Chinese Ministry of Education attempts to reduce; Cultural Revolution's reduction of; prisoner's dilemma of reforming; ten actions for Chinese schools to take to reduce

  Acta Crystallographica Section E journal

  Airbus

  American education: cheating scandals of the; cultural assumption that achievement comes from innate ability; emulating Chinese education as potential disaster for; high-stakes testing and accountability system driving cheating in; mistaken commitment to authoritarian education by; “Sputnik moment” response to Chinese PISA results by; tragedy of continued support for high-stakes testing; tragedy of loss of values traditionally celebrated by; why we must not emulate Shanghai. See also Education systems

  American Educational Research Association

  American Federation of Teachers

  American Heritage Dictionary

  America's National Superintendent of the Year (2009)

  Amherst College

  Annapolis Naval Academy

  Anti-Spiritual Pollution campaign (1983) [PRC]

  Apple

  Arouet, François-Marie (Voltaire)

  Atlanta Public Schools test scandal

  Authoritarian culture: as barrier to technological innovation; student self-blame levels related to PISA country rankings and; tendency to shift blame from authority; uniform and quantifiable standard barrier to innovation; upward accountability barrier to innovation; wishful thinking barrier to innovation. See also Chinese authoritarian culture

  Authoritarian education: American education's mistaken commitment to; Chinese education as illustrating tragic events under; Common Core State Standards Initiative as part of the; costs to creativity and innovation talents by; high-stakes cheating scandals as damage done by; high-stakes testing as America's Faustian bargain under; Mao Zedong's revolution against testing and; Obama administration as under the spell of; tendency to shift blame of failure from authority; warning about the dangerous consequences of. See also Chinese education

  Authoritarian government: as attractive alternative to Western democracy; evolution of People's Republic of China's; Goodnow's ideal of Chinese; publications on economic success of China's. See also China (People's Republic of China, PRC); China (PRC since 1978)

  Authority: authoritarian cultural tendency to shift blame from; Confucian tradition dictating obedience to; inability of Chinese students' to question

  B

  Bagu or Baguwen (format of keju)

  Baltimore Evening Sun

  Bandao Chenbao (Peninsula Morning News)

  Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother (Chua)

  Beijing consensus

  The Beijing Consensus: Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time (Halper)

  “The Beijing Consensus” (Ramo)

  Beijing Daily (newspaper)

  Beijing Normal University (People's Republic of China)

  Beijing University of Science and Technology (People's Republic of China)

  Belk, Russell

  Berliner, David

  Bibliothèque Bleue (French Enlightenment)

  Boeing

  Bohr, Niels

  Boulanger, Nicolas

  Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Program (1911) [China]

  Brookings Institute

  Budweiser

  Bush, George W.

  C

  Cai Rongsheng

  Cambridge University

  Canadian (Ontario) education system

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  Carter, Jimmy

  Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World (Kurlantzick)

  Che Yin

  Cheating: Chinese education system as causing widespread bribery and; Chinese “medical journals” scam (2009–2013); Chinese students riot (2013) in Hubei Province over being stopped from; plagiarism form of; as response to unrealistic mandated Chinese innovation

  Cheating scandals: accountability system of high-stakes testing as driving the; Atlanta Public Schools; Chinese college admissions; Chinese “medical journals” scam (2009–2013); as damage of authoritarian education; discovered in multiple US school districts; El Paso Independent School District; Renming University of China admissions

  Chen, Guidi

  Chen Jin

  Chen Yun

  Chiang Kai-shek

  China: A New History (Fairbank and Goldman)

  “China: The World's Most Clever Country?” (Coughlan)

  China (Imperial China): Boxer rebellion of; Emperor Taizong, Tang dynasty (AD 618) of; Emperor Wu, Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) of; First Emperor's unification (221 B.C.) of; First Opium War (1842) and Treaty of Nanjing between Great Britain and; Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) of; historic efforts to Westernize; hukou system (population management) of the; irony of great inventions, lack of Industrial Revolution, and decline of; Jesuit missionaries' stories about; Jin dynasty (265–420) of; Ming Dynasty (14th century) of; River Elegy (documentary) criticism of; Second Opium War (1858) defeat by; Shanran practice of power transition in ancient; strength prior to the Industrial Revolution; Sui dynasty (AD 581–681) of; Warring States period (476–221 BC) of; Western (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) admiration for; Westernization movement in. See also Keju system (Imperial China); Qing dynasty (AD 1644–1911) [Imperial China]

  China Inc: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World (Fishman)

  China IP Magazine

  China model: Friedman's desire for America to be China “for a day” like the; glorified authoritarianism of education under the; held as model for developing countries; innovation as missing from the; internal warnings regarding global flattery of; as lessons for what not to do for education; publications on Beijing consensus and praise for the; warnings on possible déjà vu decline of the; why the West must not emulate Shanghai's education using the; Xiaogang village peasants meeting (1978) marking the beginning of

  China National Cereals, Oils, and Foodstuffs Import and Export (COFCO)

  China (People's Republic of China, PRC): Anti-Spiritual Pollution campaign (1983) of the; Chinese Communist Party meeting (1978) ending Mao's dogmatic ideology; continued resistance to Western culture by; Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976) during the; establishment (1949) of the; family responsibility system (1982) adopted by; Great Leap Forward campaign of; hukou system controlling the peasant workforce in; meritocracy adopted by the; Self-Strengthening Movement failures of the; social and cultural impacts
on left on the population by the; Sun's proposed Five-Power Constitution adopted by the; Xiaogang village peasants meeting (1978) marking the beginning of the new China. See also Authoritarian government; Chinese Communist Party

  China (PRC since 1978): Chinese Communist Party meeting (1978) ending Mao's dogmatic ideology and beginning reform of; Coca-Cola's reentry into market of; continuing problem of Confucian tradition conflict with Western technology facing; crack down following the 1988 showing of River Elegy (documentary); declining poverty rates (1981–2005) in; doubts and questions about the continued economic success of; the first entrepreneurs of; Friedman's desire for America to be China “for a day,”; getihu (individually owned businesses) established in; government reforms of governance without interference; “harmony and innovation” concept of modernization by; hierarchical order of every facet of life in; high status of government civil service jobs in; increased productivity, prosperity, and workforce from economic freedom of; internal warnings regarding global flattery of; large gap between developed countries and; Likonomics economic policies (2013) by the; publications on Beijing consensus and praise for; rapid economic growth and Western interactions (1990s to present) by; state-run Xinhua news agency of; Summer Olympic Games (2008); Thomas Friedman's admiration of modern governance of; Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown (1989) in; as unlikely to engage in military conflicts with the West; warning to West on not becoming like; World Expo (2010) in; World Trade Organization (WTO) membership in 2001 by; Xiaogang village peasants meeting (1978) marking the beginning of. See also Authoritarian government; Chinese authoritarian capitalism; Chinese Communist Party; Chinese economy

  China Refuses to Be Killed by Flattery (Shu Taifeng)

  China (Republic of China, 1911): continued distrust of Western culture by the; establishment of; Goodnow's ideal of authoritarian government of; May Fourth Movement (1919) under the; Qing dynasty replaced by the. See also Republic of China (Taiwan)

  “China Takes on the World” article (Time magazine)

  China Weekly (newspaper)

  China Youth (newspaper)

 

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