Wang Chengzhi author Columbia University. Starr East Asian Library Columbia University. Libraries and Information Services originator text Articles 1999 English I investigate the creation, development, contributions and limits of Project Hope, a huge government-endorsed education project seeking non-governmental contributions to overcome educational inadequacy in poverty-stricken rural communities in transitional China. By reexamining the composition of sponsored students, the locations of Hope Primary Schools and non-educational orientations for building and expanding schools, I argue that Project Hope and its Hope School system have not contributed to educational access, equality, equity, efficiency and quality as it should have. Poverty-reduction-oriented curriculum requirements in Hope Primary Schools are theoretically misleading and realistically problematic. Elementary education 7 28 1 18 1999 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14519 NNC NNC 2012-08-28 10:03:47 -0400 2012-08-28 10:09:22 -0400 8539 eng