Gu Mingyuan, Ph.D. (1956), Moscow National Normal University, is the Distinguished Professor of Beijing Normal University. As a most eminent educationalist in China and with over 30 books and monographs and more than 600 papers over 60 years in his professional career, his educational thoughts have made significant impacts on teachers as well as education policy-makers at different levels.

"To any reader who is interested in Chinese education, this book is a gateway to the understanding of the Chinese path to the world from its own glorious past. This book surely provides us with a window through which we can see Chinese views of Chinese cultural traditions and its effects on education, as well as the Chinese perspectives on the world. If one wants to understand contemporary Chinese education, one needs to read this book to find its cultural roots." – Limin Bai, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 17.1.

• Series Editor Foreword Gerard A. PostiglioneForeword Ruth HayhoePreface for the English Edition Gu MingyuanTranslators' NoteChapter One Education and CultureChaper Two Chinese Culture and Its CharacteristicsChapter Three Categories, Characters, and Cardinal Spirit of Chinese Traditional CultureChapter Four Traditions of Chinese Education and Their Fundamental CharacteristicsChapter Five Influence of Traditional Chinese Culture on Chinese Education Chapter Six Dissemination of Western Learning to the East and the Modernization of Chinese EducationChapter Seven Influences on Chiense Education Exerted by Western Education Systems and PhilosophiesChapter Eight The Spreading of Marxism and the Establishment of Marxist Educational Thoughts in ChinaChapter Nine Influences on Chinese Education Exerted by Soviet EducationChapter Ten Reforms, Open Door Policies, and Diversification of Educational ThoughtsChapter Eleven Conclusions: Explore Modernization of Chinese Education

Gu Mingyuan, Ph.D. (1956), Moscow National Normal University, is the Distinguished Professor of Beijing Normal University. As a most eminent educationalist in China and with over 30 books and monographs and more than 600 papers over 60 years in his professional career, his educational thoughts have made significant impacts on teachers as well as education policy-makers at different levels.

"To any reader who is interested in Chinese education, this book is a gateway to the understanding of the Chinese path to the world from its own glorious past. This book surely provides us with a window through which we can see Chinese views of Chinese cultural traditions and its effects on education, as well as the Chinese perspectives on the world. If one wants to understand contemporary Chinese education, one needs to read this book to find its cultural roots." – Limin Bai, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 17.1.

• Series Editor Foreword Gerard A. PostiglioneForeword Ruth HayhoePreface for the English Edition Gu MingyuanTranslators' NoteChapter One Education and CultureChaper Two Chinese Culture and Its CharacteristicsChapter Three Categories, Characters, and Cardinal Spirit of Chinese Traditional CultureChapter Four Traditions of Chinese Education and Their Fundamental CharacteristicsChapter Five Influence of Traditional Chinese Culture on Chinese Education Chapter Six Dissemination of Western Learning to the East and the Modernization of Chinese EducationChapter Seven Influences on Chiense Education Exerted by Western Education Systems and PhilosophiesChapter Eight The Spreading of Marxism and the Establishment of Marxist Educational Thoughts in ChinaChapter Nine Influences on Chinese Education Exerted by Soviet EducationChapter Ten Reforms, Open Door Policies, and Diversification of Educational ThoughtsChapter Eleven Conclusions: Explore Modernization of Chinese Education

Gu Mingyuan, Ph.D. (1956), Moscow National Normal University, is the Distinguished Professor of Beijing Normal University. As a most eminent educationalist in China and with over 30 books and monographs and more than 600 papers over 60 years in his professional career, his educational thoughts have made significant impacts on teachers as well as education policy-makers at different levels.

"To any reader who is interested in Chinese education, this book is a gateway to the understanding of the Chinese path to the world from its own glorious past. This book surely provides us with a window through which we can see Chinese views of Chinese cultural traditions and its effects on education, as well as the Chinese perspectives on the world. If one wants to understand contemporary Chinese education, one needs to read this book to find its cultural roots." – Limin Bai, Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 17.1.

• Series Editor Foreword Gerard A. PostiglioneForeword Ruth HayhoePreface for the English Edition Gu MingyuanTranslators' NoteChapter One Education and CultureChaper Two Chinese Culture and Its CharacteristicsChapter Three Categories, Characters, and Cardinal Spirit of Chinese Traditional CultureChapter Four Traditions of Chinese Education and Their Fundamental CharacteristicsChapter Five Influence of Traditional Chinese Culture on Chinese Education Chapter Six Dissemination of Western Learning to the East and the Modernization of Chinese EducationChapter Seven Influences on Chiense Education Exerted by Western Education Systems and PhilosophiesChapter Eight The Spreading of Marxism and the Establishment of Marxist Educational Thoughts in ChinaChapter Nine Influences on Chinese Education Exerted by Soviet EducationChapter Ten Reforms, Open Door Policies, and Diversification of Educational ThoughtsChapter Eleven Conclusions: Explore Modernization of Chinese Education