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It has been a great privilege and educational experience to work with Professor Zhu on this volume.

I first met Professor Zhu in October 2012. He was then a member of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples' Conference. We discussed the differences between British and Chinese education in detail and he told me something about what reforms were being planned in China. I would continue this discussion with him periodically over the next years, as well as with the Deputy Minister of Education of China on three occasions in Cambridge and China.

Professor Zhu and I decided to write a book together on comparative education and we met again in November 2015 for a three-hour private seminar to discuss our work. I filmed are moving in the direction of ours and America's with regard to the best methods of teaching and the object of education. However, their emphasis is on equal access to the best all over China, and this would be impossibly expensive at present. Thus, many experimental schools are testing new models which will be implemented more widely in future.'

I also wrote 'A very hard-working, driven man, and it was seem like excellent and liberal ideas - thinking of the creative and active role of education and how to get away from the old Confucian model. Particularly impressed by his description of the many new experiments that are taking place across China. At the primary and junior high school level, over 3,000 schools are trying a new, freer and more creative approach, encompassing 3,000,000 children. Much more emphasis on art and music, hobbies and self-regulation. And two universities in Suzhou and Beijing planned on a new model. Colleges, self-government by the students, who are requested to write monthly letters to their parents, keep diaries and have hobbies. All looking very hopeful.

A year later, at Professor Zhu's invitation, I attended the largest educational conference in China, at Zhongshan in October 2016. We both gave keynote speeches and in the afternoon Professor Zhu and I did a question and answer session together in front of a large audience. This was also filmed.

We had dinner in Beijing in October 2019 and discussed our project further, and then we both attended a big event in Pingshan, near Shenzhen. Our account of the event, which was held before a huge audience of over one thousand people and linked to the launch of a series of my books on great thinkers, is as follows: 'The event at Pingshan was a dialogue between the educationalist, Dr Zhu, a writer on Nietzsche,, Zhou Guoping, and Alan. Dr Zhu had at the start referred to his first meeting with Alan, courtesy of Ma Xiao, and how the had recommended Letters to Lily fo all school reading lists. Also Alan's autobiography from birth through his education and how the freely gave his books to be published. Alan followed with a short address, The Editor from Shenzhen Science Press compèred the whole encounter.'

I have always learnt a great deal from these exchanges, which acted as an important supplement to what my wife and I were learning on many visits to schools and universities during our seventeen visits to China in the last twenty-four years.

I also learnt a good deal about the pre-occupation of top Chinese educationalists from the questions which Professor Zhu sent to me and I try to answer in my part of the book.

In particular, I learnt from these questions that China is trying to gather as much possible knowledge about the experience sof different educational models from around the world. It is doing this in many fields most successfully, blending the best of Chinese tradition with western experience, and this seems a particularly fruitful area with education where China and Britain are arguably the two best examples of different forms of education developed over many centuries.