A U.S.-China Odyssey: Building a Better Mouse Map

The geneticist Xu Tian splits his time between Yale and China to pursue the key to what makes a mouse tick, gene by gene, and its implications for humans.

Shanghai Schools’ Approach Pushes Students to Top of Tests

Discipline helps explain why the city’s students outperformed those from about 65 other countries.

Top Test Scores From Shanghai Stun Educators

Shanghai students outscored counterparts in dozens of other countries in China’s debut in global standardized testing.

The China Boom

A wave of Chinese undergraduates is choosing American colleges. Culture shock? Beer pong, anyone?

Needing Students, Maine School Hunts in China

A Maine high school hopes to solve its financial woes by persuading Chinese students to pay $27,000 a year there.

China steps up efforts to tempt returnees and stem 'brain drain'

Thousands of Chinese go abroad every year to study science, engineering and other fields and many never return home — not because they want to emigrate but because their still-developing economy lacks jobs to match their advanced skills.

A System Afraid of Its Own History

China's relationship to its own history remains mired in cover-ups and silences, and a look at how school textbooks present the 60 years since the People's Republic was established reveals the problem.

China's Deficit in American Studies

China faces a worrisome imbalance of intellectual trade with the United States. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Chinese know less about the United States than Americans know about China.

Socialism Studies (just for fun)

Aasif Mandvi exposes the communist threat as Hacienda Heights introduces a Chinese language program to middle school kids.

China’s Premier Discusses School Attacks

Prime Minister Wen Jiabao offered the first public comment by a Chinese leader since the latest attack.

China’s College Entry Test Is an Obsession

Families pull out all the stops so children can pass the annual gao kao, or high test, the sole determinant for admission to Chinese colleges and universities.

Tiananmen Now Seems Distant to China’s Students

Disinclined to protest, students also lack the economic grievances that motivated their predecessors in 1989.

College-Educated Chinese Feel Job Pinch

Anxiety is rippling through a generation of Chinese who had grown up thinking that prosperity was guaranteed.

Qualifying Tests for Chinese Financial Workers

In response to the global financial crisis, China has increased the number of qualification tests for workers in the financial sector.

Study Abroad Flourishes, With China a Hot Spot

The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent last year, according to a new report.

Learning to Speak Olympics

With the Games approaching, a question: Can an irritating monkey help China become conversant in English?

Chinese Students in U.S. Fight View of Their Home

Chinese students in the U.S. are confronting an image of their homeland they neither recognize nor appreciate.

Opinion: China’s Loyal Youth

As is clear to anyone who lives in China, most young ethnic Chinese strongly support their government’s suppression of the recent Tibetan uprising.

1977 Exam Opened Escape Route Into China’s Elite

For a whole generation consigned to the countryside, a university entrance examination three decades ago was a chance to escape what seemed like a life sentence of tedium and hardship.