A School in Every Village
Subtitle: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: Mar 19, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780774821773
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 (Contemporary Chinese Studies)