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.[1]

Beijing Bayi School
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Simplified Chinese北京市八一学校
Traditional Chinese北京市八一學校
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Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBěijīng Shì Bā Yī Xuéxiào
Wade–GilesPei-ching Shih Pa I Hsüeh-hsiao
East gate

Tetsushi Takahashi of Nikkei Shimbun wrote that Beijing Bayi School is "prestigious".[2] 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).[3]

History

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Nie Rongzhen established the school in 1947.[4]

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.[5]

Campuses

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North campus, formerly the Wanquanhe Middle School
 
Elementary campus, formerly the Caihefang Primary School

The school has three campuses: Main, North, and Elementary.[1]

The original campus was in a building that previously functioned as a residence for a prince who lived in the Qing Dynasty.[3] It is about 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) north of Zhongnanhai, the residential facility for the top leadership of China.[2]

Student body and student culture

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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.[2]

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."[3]

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."[3]

Notable alumni

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References

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  1. ^ a b "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
  2. ^ a b c d Takahashi, Tetsushi (2002-06-01). "Connecting the dots of the Hong Kong law and veneration of Xi". Nikkei Shimbun. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  3. ^ a b c d e Osnos, Evan (2015-03-30). "Born Red". New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-10-23. - The article refers to the school as the "August 1st School".
  4. ^ Wang, Jianfen; Chen, Ziyan (2018-06-01). "What we can learn from Xi's childhood". China Daily. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  5. ^ "Shattuck shuts down school in Beijing, still plans for major international expansion". 30 August 2016.
  6. ^ Wang, Mingjie (2017-02-13). "Jersey school opens world's 1,000th Confucius center". China Daily. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "US-ASEAN Business Council | H.E. Khemmani Pholsena". US-ASEAN Business Council. Retrieved 2021-04-13.

Further reading

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