rural education

A Meme Too Far? Weibo Bans Content about Imaginary University

Less than a month after the conclusion of China’s hypercompetitive annual university entrance examination (“gaokao”), a satirical meme about an imaginary university has been banned on Weibo. The meme and its censorship reveal...

The Village and the Girl

In a multimedia web production, Carrie Gracie of the BBC has compiled ten years of reporting from...

China’s Education Gap

In the New York Times, Helen Gao writes about the inequalities in China’s education system,...

Who’s Watching Left-behind Children?

Liz Carter at Tea Leaf Nation gives a summary of recent debates among weibo users over the safety and education of China’s 60 million “left-behind” children: As reports of sexual assault and even murder of...

Rural School Kids Suffer Malnutrition

While childhood obesity expands in China’s cities, many children in impoverished rural areas still suffer from chronic malnutrition and hunger. Lan Fang and Wang Heyan at Caixin Online report that research into the problem...

The Children of China

Jiayang Fan, a rural-born Chinese girl who later left China for the United States, tells her life story as a girl in rural China under the one-child policy . From the New Yorker: In my kindergarten class of only children, we...

School in China Is an Unlikely Wonder

Tensions between Tibetans and Chinese officials are escalating to dangerous heights in many areas. Among a host of issues raised by Tibetans in protest of their treatment at the hands of Beijing is the requirement that Tibetan...

For China’s ‘Left-Behind Kids,’ A Free Lunch

NPR’s Louisa Lim reports on journalist Deng Fei’s efforts to provide nutritious lunches for schoolchildren in China’s countryside. The children are caught on the wrong side of China’s wealth divide: most...

China’s Other Billion: Mud Houses in China’s Powerhouse

Following is the latest installment in a series of posts by journalist Rachel Beitarie*, who will be sharing with us dispatches from her journey across rural China. In this post, Rachel visits with villagers in a poor area of...

Anger over Substitute Teacher Dismissals

The planned dismissal of 448,000 substitute teachers throughout China has generated angry comments from netizens. A few days ago, ChinaHush translated news reports about the lay-offs and posted photos illustrating the difficult...

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