This book traces the history of English education in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present day. It uses the junior secondary school curriculum as the means to examine how English curriculum developers and textbook writers have confronted the shifting ambiguities and dilemmas over five distinct historical periods.
Bob Adamson is the International Director of the TESOL Unit, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology.
"This book is simply superb. Liu Heungshing travelled the world to secure the rare collection of photographs that present the last 100 years of China's tumultuous history in the most vivid, searing light yet achieved in a single volume." -- James Kynge, author of China Shakes the World