This document presents a comprehensive collage-style description of educational administration preparation programs in the People's Republic of China, covering a time span from Mao Zedong's normal college days to the present. The evolution of the current institutional specialization system, the basic composition of the programs, and some illustrations of the current literature are examined. Part 1 examines administrator preparation programs, beginning at the top with the Central Educational Administration Institute and the National Education Commission, and moving down through major and provincial normal colleges and universities, and secondary normal schools. Part 2 is a survey of the administrator preparation curriculum including instructional methods and contents, the public school system, and discipline in the schools, along with all aspects of educational finance, school management, personnel supervision, the educational history of the Chinese Communist Party, and the central and local educational administration commissions. Other considerations discussed include internal isolation, the relative absence of empirical data, the international flavor, the thought process of dialectical materialism, the quest for a single theory of scientific administration, instability of the social system, the societal emphasis as opposed to individualism, and the immense potential of scholars chosen from a population of more than one billion. Seventeen references are listed. (Author/TE)