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Elizabeth R. Vanderven - A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 - 9780774821766 - V9780774821766
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A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31

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Description for A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 Hardback. Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China's early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 498.

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

A School in Every Village 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. ... Read more

 

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Chinese Studies Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774821766
SKU
V9780774821766
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About Elizabeth R. Vanderven
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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