A county of culture
Subtitle: twentieth-century China seen from the village schools of Zouping, Shandong
By: Stig Thøgersen.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Education -- China -- Zouping Xian -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This book provides a detailed analysis of education reforms in twentieth-century rural China, and of how these reforms relate to larger processes of social, political, and economic transformation. Based on documents and life histories collected in Zouping, the book focuses on education as an indicator of the changing relations between state and rural society; as a crucial feature in local economic life; and as a decisive factor in individual careers and destinies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Traditional education; title: Training loyal subjects : the introduction of modern schools in late Qing; title: For nation and progress : modern education takes off, 1911-1931; title: Creating a new society through education : the Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1931-1937; title: Back to the basics : schools under Japanese occupation and civil war, 1937-1948; title: Education in the service of the new party-state, 1948-1957; title: Training revolutionary successors? : the radical era, 1957-1976; title: Education in the service of economic reforms : the post-Mao era.