A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 Contributor(s): Vanderven, Elizabeth R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774821760 ISBN-13: 9780774821766 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Education | History |
Dewey: 370.951 |
LCCN: 2015413483 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Physical Information: 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
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