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A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Hardcover

VanderVen, Elizabeth R.

 
9780774821766: A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0774821760 ISBN 13: 9780774821766
Publisher: UBC Press, 2012

Synopsis

In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem as part of a series of institutional reforms to shore up itspower.

<i>A School in Every Village</i> recounts how villagersand local state officials in Haicheng County enacted orders toestablish rural primary schools from 1904 to 1931. Although theCommunists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship haveall depicted rural society as feudal and backward and the educationalreforms of the early twentieth century a failure, Elizabeth VanderVendraws on untapped archival materials to reveal that villagers capablyintegrated foreign ideas and models into a system that was at oncetraditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Her portrait of educationreform not only challenges received notions about themodernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, it also addresses topicscentral to scholarly debates on modern China, including state making,gender, and the impact of global ideas on local society.

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About the Author

Elizabeth R. VanderVen is an historian of modern andlate imperial China. She was on the faculty of the History Departmentat Rutgers University, Camden.

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Publisher
UBC Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0774821760
ISBN 13 
9780774821766
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
240