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Chinese school children in the 2000s all wear uniforms. The uniforms are seasonal, depending on where the school is located in China. The summer uniforms usually consist of short pants and a shirt in the same style, sometimes in quite bright colors. Sailor collars are frequent for girls. One favourite style is a colored suit with piping in white or a contrasting color. Children used to wear their school uniforms with red Young Pioneer scarves, but this is now less common. There are only a limited number of school types in China, in part because China's Communist Government maintains a monopoly on education.
HBC has very limited information on chronological trends in Chimese school uniforms. We note some children in Chunking during the 1930s wearing plain long pants uniforms. We do not know how common that was in China. China at the time was already fighting the Japanese in what was to be the prelude to World War II. We also have the information here about modern Chinese school uniforms in 2000.
Chinese school children engage in the same activities as other children around the world. We do not have very many images from Chinese schools to know very much about the different acruvities and the clothing associated with them. We hope to expand thisxsection as we acquire more images from Chinese schools.
There are only a limited number of school types in China. The schools which have dominated Chinese history are tradition schools. We do not yet know much about them other than other than they educated tge elite and only boys. The frst modern schools in China were the Christian mission schools. The mission schools played an important role in the moderinization of China. Whith the advent of the Republic (1911), China began building a modern public school system. The Chinese Communist victory put the schools in the hands of the Communist who greatly expanded the attention to education, although for many years it was a highly politicized system with highly variable quality. The Government in recent years has greatly imoroved educational standards. The Communist insist on maintaining an educational monopoly and does not permit private schools.
Chinese school children in the 2000s all wear uniforms. The uniforms, however, are quite different. There is no national style, rather each school selects its on uniform. There appear to be regional differences. A HBC reader who has provided information has only been to Peking, Dalian, Suzhou and Shanghai. These are all big cities (between 1 and 15 million) in the prosperous eastern part of the country. I don’t think they are representative of the rural areas of the West and South. Some schools in the less prosperous areas may not require uniforms.
The uniforms are seasonal, depending on where the school is located in China. Chinais a large country. Northern China can be quite cold in the winter. Southern China bordering on Vietnam has a tropical climate. The children's school uniforms reflect these differences.
Chinese school uniforms tend to be basic and quite casual in style. Some are rather like gym uniforms. The summer uniforms usually consist of short pants and a shirt in the same style, sometimes in quite bright colours. Sailor collars are frequent for girls. One favorite style is a colored suit with piping in white or a contrasting colour.
Children used to wear their school uniforms with red Young Pioneer scarves, but this is now much less common.
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