“I would like to believe that it is a lack of imagination, not a lack of life experience, that has caused children to cheat on their compositions. From imitation to creation, Chinese essay-teaching has a long way to go.”
Beijing Times columnist Chen Fang on a Shanghai children’s writing contest for which a large portion of the “My Family Heirloom” essay submissions were about the same thing – “my maternal grandmother’s patched shirt.”
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Updated Nov.1
Beijing Times columnist Chen Fang on a Shanghai children’s writing contest for which a large portion of the “My Family Heirloom” essay submissions were about the same thing – “my maternal grandmother’s patched shirt.”