What the School Looks Like (English-Chinese Edition): 10 Years Inside Beijing National Day School, Through the Lens

This is not a coffee-table book of pretty campus photos, and it is not a policy paper on education reform. It is a decade-long record of what one real school actually looks like—taken by a teacher who walked its corridors every day with a camera. Li Qiang, a photography teacher at Beijing National Day School, shot tens of thousands of frames over ten years. The book distills them into eight themes: happiness, choice, equality, self-directed learning, friendship, student voice, hands-on experience, and international outlook. You see students choosing their own paths, arguing with teachers as equals, learning by doing, and growing into people who know what they want. The photographs carry the story, and the short bilingual text explains what you are looking at. If you want to see what a different kind of school feels like from the inside—rather than read a theoretical text or flip through staged promotional images—this is it.