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Keeping the Nation´s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China

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Description for Keeping the Nation´s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China Paperback. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.

For many, the term home economics conjures images ofsterile classrooms where young girls and women learn to cook dinner andswaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power.

Keeping the Nation’s House unsettles this assumptionby revealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China onefamily at a time. Trained between the 1920s and the early 1950s, homeeconomists believed that their discipline would transform the mostfundamental of political spaces – the home – byteaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of socialreform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, it created alegacy of gendered professionalism and reinforced the idea that ... Read more

By focusing on an overlooked group of Chinese women, this bookgenders the past by showing how these women helped make the present,and it reveals how a group of intellectuals made the transition to theCommunist era.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774819985
SKU
V9780774819985
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About Helen M. Schneider
Helen M. Schneider is an associate professor atVirginia Tech and a research associate at the University of Oxford.

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