In this interview, Alice Fong Yu discusses her background, what it was like to teach at the Commodore Elementary School in San Francisco Chinatown, and her views on busing, bilingual education, and the Bakke Case. (A M)

This description of the school system in contemporary China includes the uses of audiovisual aids at levels ranging from pre-kindergarten to the university. (STS)

Describes, via a dialogic format, background and current practices in teaching and assessing writing in secondary schools in the People's Republic of China, as well as issues involved in assessing student writing on the current national university examinations. Suggests comparisons with similar issues and practices in the United States. (SR)

Notes that in China shaped poetry is closely linked with palindromes. Traces the history of the genre and presents examples of such poetry in translation. Offers remarks on the techniques of "deciphering" patterned poems. (FL)

Presents a structural explanation for meaning differences associated with the position of adverbial modifiers with respect to the verb in Mandarian. Argues that the relevant factor is one of modifier scope. Temporal, result, and generic interpretations associated with some postverbal modification structures are explained on the basis of modifier…

Eighty-six male and forty-five female 12th grade Chinese students took the Standard Educational Intelligence Test which contains measure of risk-taking and test-wiseness. (Editor)

A bibliographical review of works on Chinese scholarship and books is presented. Selected documents relating to the pursuit of scholarship, the production (including printing), distribution and conservation of books, classification and cataloging and libraries are briefly annotated. Bibliographies and general works are also mentioned. (74…

Reviews adolescent literature about China to find a newer, more positive, and less ideologically biased approach to the Chinese and their culture. It includes a bibliography of 25 titles. (RAA)

As it has been lamented that there has been no explicit formulation of rules for students to follow regarding the Chinese particles "zhe,""ne," and "de," an attempt is made here to do so. (PJM)

Describes the journalism program at Peking University, where students are recruited from among workers, peasants, and soldiers who have had more than five years' experience working in any field. (KS)