Te Ching - English Language Teaching in China

Since the founding of the People's Republic by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedung in 1949, there'd been two education systems in China. The Chinese Empire had been ruled inefficiently during the Qing dynasty (1636-1912) and was overthrown, according to China's sexagenary calendar cycle, in the Xinhai ('metal pig') Revolution of 1912, which was followed by a disastrous period of strong local rule known as 'the Warlord Era'. The failed autocracy of General Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC), which had introduced the Examination Yuan for the civil service in 1928, resulted in the emergence of the Communist Republic of China (CPC) through Civil War (1927-49). An examination-oriented approach towards education had owed much to the historical need for preparing Imperial administrators since the Tang dynasty (618-907), but by 2010 the quality-oriented approach superseding exam-based assessments had become a further revolutionary movement.