‘The road less travelled’: towards a typology of alternative education in China

Figures & data

Table 1. The Estimated Tuition Fee of Different Types of Alternative Schools.

School Type	Estimated Tuition fee/Year	Data Sources
Waldorf School	40 thousand RMB (∼ USD$6250)	(Sun 2020)
Classics Reading School	30–40 thousand RMB (∼ $4690-6250)	(Xiong and Li 2011; Luo, Wang, and Fu 2016)
Christian School	15–17 thousand RMB (∼ $2320-2630)	(Chen 2012)
Innovative School	100 thousand RMB (∼$15.6 K)	(Hans 2021)

Figure 1. Typology of different types of alternative education in China.

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