This book is distinctive in looking at the crisis rather than the success of Chinese education. The editors and contributors, mostly oversea and mainland Chinese scholars, make a case for rethinking the purpose and practice of Chinese education.

Foreword Ruth Hayhoe 1.Introduction Guoping Zhao & Zongyi Deng Part 1: Modernization and Chinese Education: Historical Perspectives 2. China's Historical Encounter with the West and Modern Chinese Education Guoping Zhao 3. Cultivating Chinese Citizens: China's Search for Modernization and National Rejuvenation Wing-Wah Law 4. Gewu Zhizhi and Curriculum Building Limin Bai 5. A Vision for One's Own Life: Lessons from Hu Shi and Liang Shuming for Education in China Huajun Zhang Part 2: Discovering China's Cultural Roots of Education 6. Making Person through Confucian Exegesis Zongjie Wu 7. Person-making and citizen-making in Confucianism and Their Implications on Contemporary Moral Education in China Xiaoling Ke 8. Rediscover Lasting Values: Confucian Cultural Learning Models in the 21st Century Jin Li 9. Huang Yanpei's View of Folk Culture as a Person-Making Tool Thomas D. Curran Part 3: Re-envisioning Chinese Education as Person-Making 10. Civilizational Dialogue and a New Understanding of the Human Person: Implications for Chinese Education as Person-Making Guoping Zhao 11. Rethinking and Re-envisioning Chinese Didactics: Implications from the German Didaktik Tradition Zongyi Deng 12. The New Basic Education and the Development of Human Subjectivity: A Chinese Experience Yuhua Bu, Jing Xu and Zongyi Deng