--FILE -- un maschio insegnante cinese incarica i suoi studenti in una classe in Zhongxing Middle School di Guzhen county, Bengbu città, est della Cina di Anhui prov
--FILE--A male Chinese teacher instructs his students in a classroom at Zhongxing Middle School in Guzhen county, Bengbu city, east China's Anhui province, 15 December 2015. Worried that a shortage of male teachers has produced a generation of timid, self-centred and effeminate boys, educators in China are working to reinforce traditional gender roles and values in the classroom. In Zhengzhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yellow River, schools have asked boys to sign petitions pledging to act like "real men". In Shanghai, principals are trying boys-only classes, with courses like martial arts, computer repair and physics. In Hangzhou, in eastern China, educators have started a summer camp called "West Point Boys", complete with taekwon-do classes and the motto: "We bring out the men in boys." Education officials across China are aggressively recruiting male teachers, as the domestic news media warns of a need to "salvage masculinity in schools".
