A well-written book.
The China Journal
The book is engagingly written.
Labor History
This book can help readers understand Chinese politics or education before 1980.
History of Education Quarterly
Specialists on Chinese education and on modern China more generally will welcome this volume for the new insights and understandings it contributes to the study ... Read moreof Chinese socialist development, and the role of higher education within that development. Comparative educators will find it fills important gaps in knowledge within the wider historical project of socialist higher eduction development.
Comparative Education
Cleverley's treatment of the history of the Communist Labour University is detailed, effective and quite readable.
Pacific Affairs
Cleverley's book is a model of educational history. With a deep and surefooted understanding of his subject he takes the reader lucidly and impartially through the permeations of power and ideology.
Richard Davis, University of Tasmania
History Of Education Review
Offers an interesting glimpse into attempts to translate revolutionary ideology into meaningful, pragmatic, and mass-based educational actualization. As such, the Gongda story, as narrated in this volume, merits attention as a daring and even noble facet of twentieth-century Chinese societal transformation.
The Historian
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