![]() ![]() Many call the phenomenon “reversing gears,” or China’s Great Leap Backward, an allusion to the disastrous industrialization campaign of the late 1950s, which resulted in the worst man-made famine in human history. ![]() Still, many Chinese people with an interest in English can’t help but see Shanghai’s decision as pushback against the language and against Western influence in general - and another step away from openness to the world. ![]() That’s why it came as a shock to many when the education authorities in Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the country, last month forbade local elementary schools to hold final exams on the English language.īroadly, the Chinese authorities are easing the workloads of schoolchildren, amid an effort to ease the burdens on families and parents. ![]()
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