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This quotation from Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities best describes the current situation of Chinese schools. Over the past three decades, despite being the world’s most populous country, China has ensured national access to nine-year compulsory education and has been amongst the first countries to meet the target of universal education. These achievements have attracted worldwide attention. School choice, a matter of education equity, has put mounting pressure on Chinese people.
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Gu, M., Ma, J., Teng, J. (2017). Introduction: Unveiling the Mystery of Chinese Schools. In: Portraits of Chinese Schools. Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4011-5_1
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