Reading in China: Report of the U.S. Reading Study Team to the People's Republic of China.

The findings of a three-week visit in China by a study team of American scholars to examine the state of reading research and instruction in Chinese schools and universities are presented in the various articles of this report. Following an introduction describing the particulars of the visit, the report presents these articles: (1) "Chinese Attitudes Toward Education"; (2) "Early Childhood Foundations for Learning to Read in China"; (3) "Structure and Freedom in Some Chinese Classrooms"; (4) "Language, Script, and "Reading in China"; (5) "Impressions of Comprehension Instruction in China"; (6) "Issues in Literacy for a Bilingual Population in China"; (7) "Psycholinguistic Issues in Reading Chinese Characters"; and (8) "Reading Activities of Children and Adults". Appendixes contain the itinerary of the study team and a list of team members. (HTH)