On a recent branding mission to China, we learned that every child in Chinese elementary school is taught the three Chinese innovations that changed the world: gunpowder, the compass, and movable type (Chinese ancients also invented paper currency).
The two separated when Pantas was sent to a Chinese boarding school in Singapore.
His fascination was first sparked by reading Arthur Waley's translations from the Chinese at school.
Starting this year military training has become mandatory for all Chinese middle school, high school and university students.
In one recent survey, 66.2% of Chinese high school students said they planned to take care of their parents in old age.
Fifty-five percent of the Chinese stopped school with a high-school education or less, while in the United States 46% stopped with a high-school education or less.
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Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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Jeff Bissell, head of the Chinese American International School in San Francisco, says teaching is "evolving" as metrics and standards are established.
Darley has started an equine training school for Chinese university graduates, and had 800 applications for 18 places last year, Mr Ferguson says.
Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.
Nord Anglia had to spend months designing a joint English and Chinese curriculum for its new school in Ningbo City.
She joined the local team from the province of Zhejiang after school, then the Chinese national team in 2010.
He worked as a Chinese teacher at a special high school that was created for the children of ministry workers.
Even today, with Chinese children learning English from primary school onwards, it's a barrier that can be almost completely impenetrable at times.
After the 2008 quake, Chinese officials vowed to improve safety in school buildings and other official structures, through a three-year program.
Chua, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is a Yale Law School professor.
Chinese authorities have begun teaching safety awareness in school curriculums, China Daily reported.
He enrolled at Chinese University and in 1969 moved on to graduate school at UC, Berkeley.
Eighteen Chinese children missing after a landslide buried their primary school have died, officials have confirmed.
He enrolled in Chinese University and in 1969 moved on to graduate school at University of California, Berkeley.
They are more likely than other Asians to be employed (though they earn slightly less than Indians) and Sri Lankan children do better at school than any ethnic group bar the Chinese.
Karla Savina, one of three Americans in her 57-person class in the Applied Finance program at Pepperdine University's business school, says she has learned about Chinese culture, and adds that her hardworking classmates have pushed her academically.
But even with teachers, getting a Chinese-language program off the ground at a high school is difficult.
Tom Ying, head of history at Burwood Girls High School in Sydney, grew up as a Chinese child in the white Australia of the 1950s.
In a recent paper, Yi Qian of Kellogg School of Management studies the response of branded Chinese shoemakers to an influx of fakes after the government shifted its enforcement efforts to more urgent things, such as stamping out counterfeit food, drugs and alcohol.
From the scenic eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Ye entered the local Chenjinglun Sports School at the age of 6.
In 2007, he skipped afternoon classes at his school in Beijing and started an internship at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
That school was especially hard hit, as applications from Chinese students fell by more than 15% from last year, to 7, 229, and total international applications dropped 13% as of last week.
First, more Chinese citizens are completing college and thus eligible to apply to grad school.
In four years the school has become one of the top ten schools to which Chinese citizens send their GMAT scores.
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