In this Book
- A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of British Columbia Press
summary
In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide school system to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural society as feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVen draws on untapped archival materials to show that villagers and local officials capably integrated foreign ideas and models into a system that was at once traditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Her portrait of education reform both challenges received notions about the modernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, and addresses topics central to debates on modern China, including state making and the impact of global ideas on local society.
Table of Contents
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- List of Tables and Maps
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-19
- 4. Funding the New Community Schools
- pp. 80-100
- Conclusion
- pp. 162-169
- Glossary of Chinese Terms and Place Names
- pp. 199-203
- Bibliography
- pp. 204-212
Additional Information
ISBN
9780774821780
MARC Record
OCLC
778801801
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No