A Unique System Of Hong Kong

In the 20th century, the world saw the rise of many new political regimes that would redefine how the people of the world were governed. New political structures such as communism and Fascism took control in countries such as the USSR and Germany. Ultimately, all of these governments failed by the dawn of the 21st century, but the legacies they left behind have not been forgotten. China is one of these countries, and installed a communist government led by Mao in the mid 20th century. As part of their new regime, China instituted a process of re-education, where citizens would be educated in the ways of communist principles. The book Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress details two young Chinese men, the narrator and his friend Luo,

Over a period of year’s education has grown to be very important to many cultures all over the world. At one time in many cultures children were only taught what was necessary to get along and sometimes only children of the wealthy would be taught. China’s government

In the book, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? : Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World, published by John Wiley & Sons on August 14, 2014, the author, Yong Zhao, states that while China gets the highest test scores on the PISA exam, parents in China often send their children to western schools. In short Yong Zhao, a Chinese native who was born in Sichuan, claims that Western countries, Britain and America, should not try and adopt China’s education system for many reasons. I my opinion this book did not seem important to pre-service teachers, but after further thought and reading, I conclude that this book is valuable to not only pre-service teachers, but to anyone that is involved in education because it provides reasons why we should not try to adopt China’s education system.

During Chairman Mao’s rule, nearly all of the kids around Ji-Li’s age were sent to the countryside for “reeducation.” According to Mao, this was supposed to benefit both the young students and the farmers. The students would learn to respect the working masses, and the farmers would learn new technology from the students. They soon realized that the re-education system held them back from real education. “Like the Cultural Revolution, this did not work out as it was supposed to. After ten years of sacrifice in the primitive countryside most of these young people returned to the city with little education, few skills, and no beliefs. All regretted the waste of their youth, and all have struggled to start over again.” (Epilogue). Once these children grew up, they finally understood that Mao’s re-education program held them back from actually using their minds for what they might experience back in the city. All the children did was work in fields. They never understood how to strengthen their skills to prepare them for the concepts they had to know when they become adults. It is key for people to understand that in order to prepare children for the real world, they must learn in a class. Education is supposed to give us knowledge of the world around us and changes into something better. It helps people develop a perspective of looking at life, helps us build opinions, and have points of view on different

The person that I will describe is Thomas. He is one of my friends and comes from a rich family in Hong Kong. He attempts to acquire U.S. citizenship because U.S has better welfare and environment, compared to Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a crowded city where people do not live along well with each others. Also, Hong Kong did not develop well in past few years because many riots happened and Chinese government strongly intervened in and destroyed Hong Kong's independent law's system. In contrast, U.S. has huge space for people to live, and the Americans in U.S are nice to get along with. Also, U.S has a perfect law's system as its Americans can get a fair treatment from it. For instance, the pesident Trump set a new policy to prohibit some minorities

Kaye Hong grown up in San Francisco and attended university of Washington. At the begging of his essay, he was not sure where he should lie his future in because he sees his future clearly in both China and America. Through half of his essay, we can tell that he is also considered China as a weak and low quality county by saying, “I shall deplore China’s lower standard of living, that the chaos of China’s government offers me no promise of economic security” (62). Although he had thought of go back to China, the bad living condition and insecure economy has immediately stopped his thinking. To put it differently, Hong is also lack of knowledge of China, and they way he looks at China’s future was incorrect. Indeed, at that time China’s economy and condition were not as good as today. But due to his enormous population, it is possible for its citizens to make it strong and rich, which this is also what the Stanford students are trying to express. However, Hong is very pessimistic with China’s

“As a international students, I care a lot about the difference of education system between the U.S. and China.”(culture shock) I realized that the educational ideas

Lastly, the ideal of loyalty to the mother country is highly valued in Chinese political culture. For example, in China, there is not a right to free speech or freedom of the press, yet the majority of Chinese do not seem bothered by that fact and do not attempt to overthrow or modify their government structure, though they could do so relatively easily, if not through sheer numbers alone. However, the desire for unity through the prevention of misconduct is ultimately the most important thing to

Nationalism has become a major part of the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda to success and continued rule as it struggles to keep its legitimacy in China. Nationalism to an extent also shapes China’s international relations. This essay will first define what nationalism means for China by providing some background information to explain its rise, as well as the role that the ‘national humiliation’ narrative plays in it. It will also discuss the role of the patriotic education system and differentiate between state and popular

One experience so far in China that left a strong impression on my mind was a visit to the Shaanxi museum of history. Our tour guide was a locally educated young woman in her twenties. As she took us through the different periods of Chinese history, at every exhibit showing some sort of tool or mechanistic contraption she would turn and say “as you can see, the Chinese people are very smart!” She also recounted a story in which she was very offended that an American made a comment that Chinese people are short, to which she replied “yes, we are, but we have five thousand years of history and culture!” Both the richness and vastness of Chinese history was a huge source of pride for her, as her slightly illogical response to the American’s comment shows. In retrospect, her age denotes that she grew up on the government’s campaign in the 1990s to educated students about China’s greatness, to foster pride.

Hong Kongers protest procession to “kick” out all mainland Chinese. They call the visitors from the mainland as “locust”. I know what mainland Chinese done is wrong, but that does not represent everyone will do the same things. Due to this contradiction, Hong Kongers start to give tourist nasty looks if they speak Mandarin. Some Hong Kongers will discriminate and abuse, force innocent visitors to open their suitcases to show what they brought in Hong Kong! Even though Hong Kong’s reversion to China occurs, a lot of local residents still despise Mandarin and simplified Chinese characters. Hong Kongers believe they have their own culture, currency and system. They have all the requirements to build a country, thus they don’t want mainland China to step in or get involve with them. Although I have not experienced this bias behaviors directly, I still this kind of discrimination should be

For this reason, the Chinese teachers rarely ever addressed politics or controversies in China, but focused on “…language lessons on such general topics as kinship, food, occupations, and the natural environment” (333). Therefore, many students and their parents thought that this lack of discussion about the politics of China in the educational material was in fact “…the epitome of politics itself” (336). They believed that the state was controlling the messages in the class in order to avoid certain topics purposely. As a result, the Confucius Institutes actually “…reinforced images of a state whose power is constructed through censorship and dictatorship” (335). While the students and parents developed this idea because of their American background and the corresponding view of China, the Chinese teachers offered an opposing view of their state.

There is a large diversity of people in Hong Kong because it continuously expands in economy and market. This of course, is a big advantage to our industry because although Precious Gems and Stones came in second to the Electronic equipment industries with a high dollar value of $82.4 billion and each export percentage share of 15.7% in terms of global shipments during 2014, the Precious Gems and Stones industry was the fastest growing among the top 10 export categories. It went up 161.1% for the 5-year period which started in 2010. It was also propelled by international sales of unwrought gold and unset diamonds. (worldstopexport.com)

The Chinese government set up a wide system of primary schools. For the first time in all of China’s history the majority of the population received a complete basic education. Even though the government’s “Great Leap Forward” program didn’t put

The differences that exist between the Chinese and American education systems are great and obvious. However, some of these differences don’t play to the strengths of the representative country. American schools allow for greater freedom of movement and choice, while Chinese schools decide the “what”, “where”, and “how” of educational circumstance for the students (Bush, tony, and Qiang Haiyan). These differences in structure should lead to a greater educational standard being held by China, but that isn’t always the case. This paper will examine the differences in education system in the two countries and show that the Chinese system, while