Junheng Li is the author of Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back and the head of JL Warren Capital LLC. Bethany Allen is a freelance writer living in New Haven, CT. Ana Swanson is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC.

Bad Schools

China may have made huge strides recently, but its school system languishes as a relic that teaches children by rote and exists merely to make students willing tools of the state.