Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan gives us a fascinating glimpse of student life at a Chinese Communist Party school. more ›

Last week, we told you about the visa and financial problems that Shanghai Rego International School was reportedly experiencing. Things are just about to get worse for them because district authorities have refused to continue leasing land to it. This means the school will have to move elsewhere within the city when its current lease is up January 2013. more ›

China has donated school buses to Macedonia, and these buses were handed over to the south-eastern European country yesterday. more ›

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a primary school in Anze County, Shanxi Province, killing himself and wounding another 6. Local authorities say that at around 1530 on November 24, Feng Aihong (冯爱红), the suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a local primary school, killing himself on the spot. One teacher and five students who were having sports class were also wounded. However, they suffered only facial burns and there is no danger to their lives. more ›

Since Dr. Phil or Oprah don't really have much traction in China, mainland women instead have to turn to institutions like the Good Wife Happy School and the Beijing Moral Education Center for Women to prevent or fix a broken marriage. more ›

One October afternoon after school, two primary school girls in Funan, Anhui province made a pact to kill themselves in their empty classroom. Before drinking the poison that they hoped would lead to their death, the students scrawled "blame our deaths on our math teacher" on their classroom's blackboard. After being treated in the hospital, the girls explained that they were upset that the teacher "deliberately found fault in the girl's work after the two did not attend their make-up lessons." The teacher denies these allegations. more ›

In a video spreading like wildfire around the 'nets, two students who reportedly caused their class's school bus to leave late are forced by their teacher to stand for five minutes and repeatedly hit each other across the face. more ›

The soccer team of an elementary school in Beijing was demolished by its Russian counterpart in a friendly match 0:15, according to Beijing Times journalist Zhang Bin. Zhang said over Sina Weibo yesterday: more ›

The plainclothes "fake police" trying to "lure foreign kids into their cars" two days ago were actually legitimate police officers who simply had a miscommunication with the young students due to their poor spoken English. more ›

Attention all parents, you'll want to take note of this one! Fake police officers have been caught trying to lure students of the Dulwich College Shanghai into their cars in broad daylight outside Carrefour Jinqiao. The following letter sent by the Deutsche Schule Shanghai and Dulwich College to parents (you'll find the English portion on page 2) was forwarded to us by a concerned reader. If you have kids attending school in Shanghai, make sure they know they should never ever talk to strangers, accept food from them, or enter their vehicles. more ›

America's top teacher Michelle Shearer visits China to find out...
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With good friends like Pakistan, who needs to spend money building Confucius Institutes? more ›

We were just beginning to hope this terrible trend had come to an end. Today around noon a staffer at a temporary daycare facility on Minhang Rd in Shanghai went on a rampage with a box cutter, injuring 8 children. The victims were all 3 and 4-year-olds, and they suffered injuries to mostly their necks and heads. They were rushed to the Fudan University Hopsital for treatment, and several underwent surgery immediately. Only one boy is believed to have received a life-threatening injury. more ›

Slogan for a school in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province:
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Disney English is old news, we know, but let's just take a break from the train crash tragedy for a minute and see what Colbert can come up with. "We cannot allow a princess gap!" more ›

"THE number of young girls allegedly sexually abused by a security guard at a city kindergarten now stands at 11, police said yesterday. Another four girls, aged between six and seven, were added to the seven alleged victims previously reported at Tongxing Kindergarten in Minhang District. And officers warned the number is likely to increase further as more parents, who used to be reluctant to report abuse as they feared the exposure would be bad for their child's future, will come forward. Police said some victims' parents were even unaware of what happened. Others are still waiting for medical reports from hospitals." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"A MAN who laced food with rat poison, killing two children and leaving 19 others ill in south Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2009 has been executed, authorities announced yesterday. Li Shengguang, 68, owned the land where the Muge Township Wenda Kindergarten was built. He added poison to a meal intended for Lu Zhikun, a cook at the school with whom Li had a long-term dispute. But Lu never ate the poisoned food, and instead 21 children, aged two to five, ate meals that contained the rodenticide "dushuqiang," that is widely used in rural areas. Two children died before reaching hospital. Li was sentenced to death on August 25, 2010 by Guigang City Intermediate people's court. The decision was recently approved by the Supreme People's Court." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

• Shanghai women are less willing to pop babies out all by themselves. More and more of them are undergoing cesareans, to be precise 53.6 percent of all local pregnant women. Now Shanghai's health authority and local hospitals are seeking to reduce this rate.

Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai may have replaced prime-time television dramas with communist propaganda and assembled thousands of people to sing red songs with him, but here at the local primary school in Duping Village of Chongqing's Wushan Town, it's Michael Jackson the kids are dancing to. Every morning 10am, students at Duping Primary School will assemble in neat rows on their school field, set amid the verdant hills of rural Chongqing, and move to the King of Pop's Dangerous as part of their daily calisthenics routine. Here's the scene on a recent morning:
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Former journalist, deputy principal at Peking University High School and the director of its International Division, Jiang Xueqin, writes:

I remembered when I was working as a journalist, I saw the Communist Party as a monolithic and top-down political system that controlled the direction and destiny of 1.3 billion people. Now, working as a Beijing public school administrator, I can see for myself how difficult it is for the government to control a Beijing school, let alone 1.3 billion people. more ›

Well, here's something we didn't know: Education First (EF), better known through their subsidiary English First here in mainland China, is also in the Chinese language business. And they want you to learn the language with them in Beijing. Check out this nice little commercial created for them by the Stockhom-based production house Camp David. more ›

Can anyone tell us what these kungfu kids should do when faced with a knife-wielding mad man? Wouldn't it be better to just arm them with guns already?
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That latest school attack in Shaanxi Province? That might have been a result of a property dispute, says Melissa Chan of Al-Jazeera:
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While U.S. and European schools have been haunted by repeated school shootings in the past decade, it seems like a rash of violent attacks is continuing to plague schools around China in recent months. The latest in a series of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren occurred on Tuesday morning in Shaanxi Province’s rural Nanzheng County. Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death and at least 20 children were wounded in an attack on a kindergarten, reports Xinhua. The attacker later killed himself, police officials reported. No further details of the incident have been given so far. more ›

More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here). more ›

Three months have passed since the infamous implosion of Kai En English sent shock waves throughout the community of English language teachers here in Shanghai, and now Danwei has revisited the subject with an excellent report by Shanghai-based writer Tessa Thorniley that sought to answer the question: "Why are so many foreigners fleeing China in the wake of language school bankruptcies?" more ›

The saga of problems and setbacks that China has faced in attempting to implement the controversial Green Dam internet censorship software just keeps on going. After postponing the software's release indefinitely this summer, the government has attempted to find ways to censor the 'net without provoking massive public outrage. Which is funny, because the government is sneaking around trying to do things on the internet without anyone noticing, just like us! more ›

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Donald Tsang announced today that beginning tomorrow all kindergartens, primary schools, and care centers in the city will be closed for 14 days. It was decided after it had been determined that the recent H1N1 flu cases had been transmitted within the local community. From Bloomberg.com: "The government is well prepared and will monitor developments closely," Tsang said. "There's no need to panic." more ›