This paper is intended to briefly account the explorations of curricular construction , student autonomy and the like reforms performed by shu xincheng in shanghai public schools in line with the daltonian system , so as to demonstrate shu ' s charming personality in his courage to introduce and adapt the reformsto the chinese education 摘要通过探索舒新城在上海中国公学中学部所进行的有关选科制、学科制、课程结构以及学生自治会改革，特别是剖析了其对道尔顿制在上海的引进、实验、困惑及其反思，再现了新教育改革家的个性魅力，肯定了适合国情、综合创造的本土化教育改革的学术价值和现实意义。
