Schools into fields and factories
Subtitle: anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927-1932
By: Ming K. Chan & Arif Dirlik.
Contributors: Dirlik, Arif.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Lao tung ta hsüeh (China); Working class -- Education (Higher) -- China -- Case studies.; Education, Higher -- China -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.; Anarchism -- China -- History -- 20th century.; Higher education and state -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education. Under the slogan "Turn schools into fields and factories, fields and factories into schools," the university attempted to bridge the gap between intellectual and manual labor which its founders saw as a central problem of capitalism and which remains a persistent theme in Chinese revolutionary thinking... The authors bring to bear the perspectives of institutional and intellectual history on their examination of the structure and operation of the university, presenting new material on its faculty, curriculum, physical plant, and history. They demonstrate how the prominent features and problems of Chinese higher education during the early years of the Guomindang regime prefigure the Marxist program of the Cultural Revolution and continue to have an influence on revolutionary thinking in the situation of China today"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-331) and index.