|
Front Page of the Day
Traditional education treats Internet addictionPosted by Eric Mu, December 10, 2008 5:23 PM
Starting on Monday, Wuhan Morning Post has been running a series of reports on An Deyi, a guoxue master who runs a home school to cure youngsters of Internet addiction. His course in traditional learning, which costs 30,000 yuan a year, has reportedly worked miracles in bringing young Internet junkies back to normal. Today's issue provides more examples that An turns rebellious brats into filial sons and daughters. The newspaper also announces that to help families facing similar problems, An will hold a public lecture on December 21 in Wuhan's Youth Palace. Here is the partial translation of a story that appeared in the December 8 issue:
To find a way out the situation, Yan's parents decided to send her to An's home school to study guoxue, or traditional Chinese learning, for two years. An's method is to simply have Yan recite the ancient Chinese classics for a few hours every day, in combination with a healthy diet and physical exercise. According to An, "to cure Internet addiction, the simplest method is reading ancient masters' classic works....Yan will be able to recite 100,000 characters within a year if she carries on at this pace." About two months into the treatment, Yan's addiction to the Internet has totally vanished and she has taken a healthy liking to reading Chinese classics. Even her father, who was once so disappointed with her, believes that his rude, rebellious daughter has changed. Yan said she owes everything to An, whom she calls "Guoxue Super-Dad." Links and Sources
|
Partner Links
Jobs in China
Recent Comments
HaiTek on
Chinese in Argentina
Sam Voutas on
Taxi vs Taxi
animal rig on
Cats and dogs in the animal cruelty law
Paul Jones on
Bankrupt schools and their fleeing foreign bosses
Chris/Kati on
Reserve a ticket on the 2012 ark through Taobao!
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
![]() Recommended blogs and new media
Books on China
Tales of Old Hong Kong: The new Tales of Old Hong Kong compiled by Derek Sandhaus is available at Earnshaw Books.
Diamond Hill by Feng Chi-shun: Feng's memoir Diamond Hill describes an era of gambling and gangsters, Suzie Wong and squatter villages, fires and food stalls, and the Kowloon Walled City and its white powder. "A time when people were poor, but life was rich," he says. The world that he grew up in no longer exists, but his book - the first ever on the Diamond Hill refugee settlement, in either Chinese or English - offers a candid picture of what life was like for most Hong Kong residents in the 1950s.
William A. Callahan's China: The Pessoptimist Nation: China: The Pessoptimist Nation shows how the heart of Chinese foreign policy is not a security dilemma, but an identity dilemma. Through a careful analysis of how Chinese people understand their new place in the world, the book charts how Chinese identity emerges through the interplay of positive and negative feelings in a dynamic that intertwines China's domestic and international politics.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ Lost in Beijing finally gets killed (2008.01): SARFT (广电总局) brings down the hammer on Lost in Beijing (苹果), one year after its offense. + People: Tina Liu (2004.09): Tina Liu is Hong Kong's most prominent image stylist, but her mercurial career has involved her in almost every aspect of Hong Kong's media world. + Asimov Published, Interviewed in Beijing (2005.03): Cover story from this week's Book Review section of The Beijing News announces the publication of a Chinese translation of Isaac Asimov's complete Foundation series. Yup, the Beijing News has scored a fictional interview with "I, Asimov". They've been taking similar liberties recently in their entertainment sections, captioning photographs of celebrities with made-up quotes.
Danwei Archives
Danwei Feeds
Via Feedsky
or Feedburner |





Comments on Traditional education treats Internet addiction
Perhaps if her parents has treated her better, none of this would have happened. Personally I think this is really a step in the wrong direction and it sends the wrong message to parents: You can "fix" (brainwash?) your children by dumping them onto someone else instead of being a better parent.
It's a very modern western thing to lay the problem on the parents if the children didn't turn out well. It seems that everyone thinks people below 18 can't make logical decisions, so it can never the kid's fault. Hopefully this idea won't become the dominant mainstream thinking in China.
This was clearly the parents fault. Instead of building bridges with their daughter they tried to launch an invasion.
Agreed with outcast, all i can say is that her parents are making the trouble, it isn't the fault of internet addiction. Her parents should be sent to the school and recite things...Is she that bad? Having boy friend in senior high or junior high doesn't necessarily mean she is a bad girl. I don't like this article, it is very old fashioned, and the so-called Guoxue school, if simply reciting things can solve the problem, well, send criminals to his school too...
I hate parents looked over my shoulder to check what I was doing when I was teen. Typical Chinese parents? I wish I would not do the same if I were parents.