In China even medical education is based on politics. (HS)

All the organizational, technical, fiscal, and physical changes of libraries are designed to serve the two ultimate purposes of helping in the political indoctrination of the people and improving and increasing production. (Author)

In an historical review, an Asia expert examines changing attitudes toward Oriental cultures within the U.S. (Author)

This study, part of an overall study of political and social integration in Malaya carried out in 1966-67, has resulted in findings that vary from consistency theory research in developed countries. (DB)

Program will cover Contemporary Chinese History, Society, and Politics; Chinese Language; Doing Business with China; A China Educational Travel Program. The program combines professional and general public areas. (NL)

A profile of how Chinese urban intellectuals view life in their country is presented. Information was obtained through many conversations with Chinese educators and students during the author's visit to China. Discussed are family, education, the cultural revolution, the Gang of Four, the quest for modernization, and the policy toward…

Describes efforts toward linguistic unification and universal literacy in the People's Republic of China. (FL)

China's educational system is undergoing sweeping change. (MM)

This article examines the important alterations in China's educational policies since the death of Mao Tse-tung. (MM)

Investigates whether children can use partial information to learn the pronunciations of Chinese characters. Children learned to pronounce more regular characters, which contain full information about pronunciation, and more tone-different and onset-different characters, which contain partial information about pronunciation, than characters with…

Examines U.S. and Chinese conceptions of learning with leaning-related terms collected from U.S. and Chinese college students. Cluster analysis yielded a hierarchical structure of this lexicon for each culture. The English terms included elaborated conceptions of mental processes, internal learner characteristics, and social contexts. Most Chinese…

Undergraduate (n=996) and graduate (n=294) business students in Hong Kong and China completed measures of moral development and conflict handling styles. A significant association between moral development stage and integrating style was found. Despite common Chinese cultural heritage, Hong Kong students had significantly lower moral development…

This special issue brings together research concerned with the psychoeducational and psychosocial functioning of Chinese children in Mainland China (including Hong Kong) and of those who have immigrated to the U.S. Articles address a variety of topics including: moral development, self-concept, school adjustment, creativity, friendships, reading,…

Investigated the nature and occurrence of hesitation phenomena in spontaneous speech among native and non-native English speakers, noting whether they posed perception problems for non-native speakers in normal spontaneous speech. Qualitative analysis revealed that they were ubiquitous in native and non-native speech production. Qualitative…