First of a two-part series, this issue discusses the rural resettlement of youth in China begun seven years ago. The articles are a translation of the first 63 pages of a book entitled "Have a Warm Concern for the Growth of Educated Youths Going Down to the Countryside." (Author/RM)

This paper is a record of interviews and observations made during a visit of nearly three months to the People's Republic of China. The educational problems faced by the new government in 1949, the first two decades after that, and the problems which led to the Cultural Revolution were discussed. (Editor/RK)

The relationship between factories and schools in Chinese education is discussed. According to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line, factories and schools should work together to deepen understandings of the educational revolution--cooperating to cultivate successors for the revolutionary task of the proletariat. (SM)

The first part of the paper briefly reviews the teaching of area studies within the last generation, noting that Chinese studies have markedly increased. The second part discusses forces operating on social studies teachers today which quite naturally relate to area studies. These include calls for teachers to change their technique from…

The aims and motives of schooling are changing, and it is becoming more and more a ritualized process of qualification-earning. The underlying causes of this change are traced through the education histories of Britain, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Kenya. It is illustrated that the competitve scramble for scarce modern jobs has created a "backwash…

In response to the growing attention on China's educational system, a two-day workshop on education in China was sponsored. The purpose of the conference was to assess what already is known about China; to identify issues which might profitably be investigated by future visitors to China; and to encourage further interest in Chinese education…