It's cute that you're trying to be technical, unfortunately you're not very well read.
The ecomonic theories of Communism were developed in conjunction with its social and political theories. Had you actually read any of Das Kapital or the Manifesto, you would know this. In fact, the central premise of communism is that economics form the foundation of social and political life, and that they cannot be seperated.
And on a more modern level, the word "Communism" is commonly used to denote a sociopolitical system of central economic and social control that is loosely based on the sybolism found in Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist thought. But of course you knew this, and were just trying to sound smart. Better luck next time.
I'm not sure what you are talking about here. The education in China has little do to with communism. Science is science no matter what political ideology is taught.
My parents are Chinese biologist (with respective degrees in biology from Chinese universities). They've worked at two major universities and currently work for a large pharm company as researchers and there are a lot of Chinese researchers who got their undergrad and graduate degrees in China. The science taught in China is very compatible with that taught in the US.
We have a lot of Chinese friends who are doctors who are trying to get relicensed here in the US. I also have two cousins who are MDs in China, both of whom were interested in studying in the US.
Based on their experiences, here is what I got from them:
1. Do not go to China for an MD if your goal is to practice back here in the US or Canada. It's for the same reason that one should avoid the Caribbeans or any other foreign medical schools. Go to medical school in the country that you want to practice in.
2. Chinese medical schools for native citizens are good for basic sciences, not so hot for clinicals. My cousins have an MD but they've only spent one year in clinical rotation. They spent the same amount of years in basic sciences as we do, about four years (for US kids, it's two years for pre-reqs, two years of basic sciences). The fifth year is at a hospital for one year of rotation. Then they are pushed into a job at a hospital where people watch out for them but there is not formal residency apprenticeship. Also, medical schools in China are offered at the undergraduate level as well as the graduate level. You can do MDs as bachelors, masters and doctoral level. The doctoral level MD are eight years long and you spend all eight years taking biology courses. Chinese universities do not stress a 'liberal arts' approach to education. If one goes on the science track, there is no 'humanities' or social sciences requirement. It's all science classes throughout your years of education there.
3. The medical schools opened for foreigners, specifically US students who can't get into US medical schools are so new they have almost no track record of sending kids back for rotations and matching. The one I have heard of is in Shanghai. The girl is a US citizen (with Chinese parents), a high school graduate who has such bad grades that her parents are sure she won't get into med school in the US, so they send her to China for this special program. Her parents say that she will do the first four years in China, focusing on the sciences, then come back for her last two years of clinical sciences, and then match here as a FMG. She gets no bachelors, so almost two years of her education is cut off. It would be like someone doing their pre-reqs then diving into medical school. The quality of english, I would wager, is probably pretty bad at these schools. Most Chinese learned english in high school which do not stress pronunciation. In other words, even the best english student may only be proficient in writing the language, not speaking it.
4. It's very, very hard for Chinese doctors to get re-licensed because of language deficiencies. Unlike their Indian counterpart who have a much higher success rate of passing the USMLE, Chinese educated doctors grew up not learning English until high school. It is only in the last five years that China has stipulated all english be taught at the 3rd grade. Hence, the average Chinese doctor currently spend 2-4 years relearning all their medical terminology in english before trying for the USLME. And there is a low pass rate for matching. From what we have seen, most Chinese doctors here work at research facilities and their biggest frustration with the USMLE is they understand the sciences just fine, but it's the english that gets to them. In other words, it is not their technical education that is poor, but their English education.
5. There is a stigma attached to attending a foreign medical school in a nonWestern country. Even the best medical university in China (Beida Medical College) see graduates suffer in the US match. The Caribbeans are the exception because there has been such a long history of success Caribbeans grads coming back to the US to practice medicine. I would avoid going to a medical school in a developing country if possible (except for the Caribbeans). Go Caribbean or Western Europe.
My suggestion is to avoid going to China for a medical education, not because of any basic science deficiencies, but because of the poor English that will probably be used to teach you the basic sciences, the uncertain paths that you would need to take to get back to the US, and the stigma of going to a non-Western medical school (and there is a BIG one).
Good luck!
