The Disability and Deafness in East Asia: Social and educational responses, from antiquity to recent times partially annotated bibliography includes articles about deaf education in China. Examples of items found in this bibliography include a paper titled "A Bilingual and Bicultural Approach to Teaching Deaf Children in China."
An About Deafness/HOH blog post about a bilingual-bicultural deaf school in China:
According to the article "Seen and not heard" in the Weekend Standard (Feb. 26-27, 2005), China's Business Newspaper, Tianjin is home to a bilingual-bicultural school for the deaf, a deaf university, and a sign language club. The article also gives a clear insight into the situation for deaf people in China.
China has many schools for the deaf. A small sampling: Fourth school for the deaf (Beijing), Nanjing deaf school, Shanghai Deaf School, Chengdu School for Blind and Deaf Children, Kunming School for Blind and Deaf Children, and Chefoo School for the Deaf. Additional deaf schools are in Hong Kong, such as the Lutheran School for the Deaf, Chun Tok School (Hong Kong School for the Deaf), and the Caritas Magdalene School.
A 2001 China People's Daily news article reported that Zhou Tingting was China's "first deaf college graduate" and that she had been accepted to Gallaudet University. While attending China's Liaoning Normal University she had written a paper, "The Way Deaf People Adapt Themselves to Mainstream Society."
An About visitor wrote: Lei leng, a deaf woman born in the Fujian province of China who immigrated to Macao when she was 14 years old, graduated in January 2000 from the University of Macau. Macau, previously a Portuguese colony, became a S.A.R.(special administrative region, just like Hong Kong) of China in 1999.
For deaf college students in China, the Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf (TTCD) of the Tianjin University of Technology (TUT) is the first technical college for deaf Chinese students. Begun in 1991, this college focuses on computer technology education and also has a degree in costume design.
Tibet is part of China, and has its own school for the deaf in Lhasa, Tibet's capital.
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