A school in every village : educational reform in a Northeast China county, 1904-31 /

A school in every village : educational reform in a Northeast China county, 1904-31 /

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Author / Creator:VanderVen, Elizabeth, 1966-
Imprint:Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523
Contemporary Chinese studies.
Subject:
Education -- China -- Haicheng Xian (Liaoning Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
Educational change -- China -- Haicheng Xian (Liaoning Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
School management and organization -- China -- Haicheng Xian (Liaoning Sheng) -- History -- 20th century.
Education and state -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Education.
Education and state.
Educational change.
School management and organization.
China.
China -- Haicheng Shi.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12348235
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ISBN:9780774821780
0774821787
9780774821766
0774821760
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: VanderVen, Elizabeth R., 1966- School in every village. Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011 9780774821766

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