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Beijing Rego British School

school in Beijing, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ20984056 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beijing Rego British School (BRBS, simplified Chinese: 北京瑞金英国学校; traditional Chinese: 北京瑞金英國學校; pinyin: Běijīng Ruìjīn Yīngguó Xuéxiào) was a British international school in Tianzhu County, Shunyi District, Beijing, China.

It first opened its doors in 2011 to students aged 3 to 18. The school had about 12 students in 2012, and 60 students by 2013. The school closed in 2013.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Beijing Rego British School” as school in Beijing, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011. The account is most persuasive where Beijing, Rego and British can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as school in Beijing, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20984056. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Beijing Rego British School”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Beijing Rego British School primary sources, Beijing Rego British School archive and Beijing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Beijing Rego British School”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Beijing Rego British School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.