Chengdu Waldorf School was built by group of parents and young people led by Harry and his wife Lily and his friend Zewu who was trained at Emerson College in UK).A cooperative community of young people formed around the school during this first year.

 

A school community was built up in a run-down holiday resort . They had done on the rebuilding so that they could set up the kindergarten and the school. 

The community environment  is similar to Anthroposophical communities in the west, but, they do not have as much Anthroposophical content in the conversations because Chinese who have some kind of spiritual life tend to keep it inward and not verbalize their beliefs. Instead of discussing spiritual issues, they eat and study together, do artistic work or real practical work.

 

Chengdu waldorf school has been a part of the worldwide anthroposophical community.  Many visitors and friends have come to visit in the past years. There are some parents coming from the West to enroll their children to the school because they want their children to be educated in Chinese. The foreign visitors and visiting teachers, volunteers are bring  culture diversity to the school community.