Study On The Educational Characteristic Of Yokohama Yamate Chinese School

Yokohama Yamate-Chinese School, founded in 1898, is the first modern overseas Chinese School in the world and one of five full-time Chinese schools still remained in Japan up to now. The Chinese School had experienced lots of difficulties such as earthquakes, war and political interference, so that the Chinese School destroyed, relocated and reconstructed several times, all were indescribable hardship process. However, the Chinese School stands firm more than a century, which is inseparable from the enthusiastic support of overseas Chinese and kind attention of the motherland. Nowadays Yokohama Yamate-Chinese School has become a banner of overseas Chinese education in Japan. The Chinese School keeps pace with the times, makes pioneering efforts, widely adopts and absorbs the international advanced teaching achievement, applies modern teaching technology, combines both the traditional culture and modern education thought, improves the teaching quality increasingly and organizes much more teaching activities, all these provide many successful experiences for overseas Chinese education standardized and scientific systemization.Yokohama Yamate-Chinese School has been insisting on and carrying forward the fine tradition of Chinese nation, firmly grasping a corrective orientation of running a school, carrying out the educational policy of rigorous and scientific, adhering to the principle of teaching aid and prosperity relying on the overseas Chinese. The Chinese School has made great achievement and progress, plays important roles in the unity and development of local overseas Chinese community, promotes the Sino-Japanese friendship, mutual aid and understanding. By analyzing the educational characteristic of Yokohama Yamate-Chinese School, to grasp as a whole the current situation of Chinese education in Japan, the thesis investigates the deep reasons of its forming characteristics, then forecasts its development trend, hoping to provide some reference for Chinese education and development of the overseas Chinese affairs.