POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Communist Party Of China, Compulsory Education, Universal Preschool
11 Mar 2018
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During the early days of mao"s cultural re(cid:448)olution from 1966 through 1976, higher education in china effectively shut down. The stated goal of the social-political movement was to enforce communism in the country by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from chinese society. In education it meant a manifold expansion in educational opportunities for peasants and workers, which led to the forcible movement of educated persons from the cities to the villages. Many fresh high school graduates were forced out of the cities and effectively exiled to remote areas. Some commentators consider these people, many of whom lost the opportunity to attend university, as china"s "lost generation. " Since the end of the cultural revolution in 1976, the education system in china has been geared toward economic modernization. In may 1985, the central committee of the chinese communist. Party called for nine years of compulsory education and the establishment of the state education.
