Cultural Analysis of the Rural Education in China

This article analyzes the rural education in China in the perspective of culture. Rural education is regarded as a cultural product. Social justice, social class, habitus and literacy are the main cultural elements, which are used to probe the problems of rural education in China. And then, the article suggests several strategies for addressing the problems. Basically, we need to increase financial input to the underdeveloped rural areas. However, what is important is to reform the funding assurance system for compulsory education in the countryside, thus bringing rural compulsory education expenditure into the overall public funding assurance framework.