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Beijing Bayi School (Chinese: 北京市八一学校), also known as the August 1st School, is a public elementary through high school with three campuses in Haidian District, Beijing.
Tetsushi Takahashi of Nikkei Shimbun wrote that Beijing Bayi School is "prestigious". Evan Osnos of New Yorker wrote that the "exclusive" Beijing Bayi School was known as the "cradle of leaders" (领袖摇篮; lǐngxiù yáolán).
History
Nie Rongzhen established the school in 1947.
From 2013, Shattuck-Saint Mary's of Minnesota, USA operated an expansion campus in the Bayi School. The partnership ended in 2016 over disagreements regarding control and funding.
Campuses
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The school has three campuses: Main, North, and Elementary.
The original campus was in a building that previously functioned as a residence for a prince who lived in the Qing Dynasty. It is about 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) north of Zhongnanhai, the residential facility for the top leadership of China.
Student body and student culture
Takahashi stated that in the era prior to the Cultural Revolution, descendants of the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party, known as "second-generation reds", were enrolled at Beijing Bayi School.
Osnos wrote that in the pre-Cultural Revolution period the pupils "formed a small, close-knit élite; they lived in the same compounds, summered at the same retreats, and shared a sense of noblesse oblige."
Mi Hedu, author of The Red Guard Generation, wrote that pre-Cultural Revolution pupils "compared one another on the basis of whose father had a higher rank, whose father rode in a better car."
Notable alumni
- Xi Jinping, paramount leader of China - attended at the elementary and junior high school levels, graduated in 1968
- Khemmani Pholsena, daughter of former Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Quinim Pholsena - attended school in Beijing between 1963 and 1969
- Yu Zhengsheng, Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference - attended at the elementary level
- Deng Pufang, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference - attended at the elementary level
References
- ^ "联系我们". Beijing Bayi School. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
总部 地 址： 北京海淀区苏州街29号 邮 编： 100080 北校区 地 址： 北京海淀区 草场乙73号 邮 编： 100080 小学部 地址：北京市海淀区彩和坊路19号 邮 编： 100080
- ^ Takahashi, Tetsushi (2002-06-01). "Connecting the dots of the Hong Kong law and veneration of Xi". Nikkei Shimbun. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ Osnos, Evan (2015-03-30). "Born Red". New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-10-23. - The article refers to the school as the "August 1st School".
- Wang, Jianfen; Chen, Ziyan (2018-06-01). "What we can learn from Xi's childhood". China Daily. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- "Shattuck shuts down school in Beijing, still plans for major international expansion". 30 August 2016.
- Wang, Mingjie (2017-02-13). "Jersey school opens world's 1,000th Confucius center". China Daily. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- "第二批校友名录公示（61届—65届小学毕业 缺62年毕业生名单）" (in Chinese). Beijing Bayi School Alumni Association. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- "第四批校友名录公示（61届—70届初中毕业生 71届—79届部分初中毕业生 缺73届、78届初中毕业生）" (in Chinese). Beijing Bayi School Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 2020-12-27. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- "US-ASEAN Business Council | H.E. Khemmani Pholsena". US-ASEAN Business Council. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
Further reading
- "Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming at the Reception for Beijing Bayi School and British Schools Chinese Embassy, 13 February 2017". Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2017-02-13.
External links
- Beijing Bayi School (in Chinese)
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