A School in Every Village: Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Softcover

Vanderven, Elizabeth R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774821779 ISBN 13: 9780774821773

Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2013

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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.

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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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In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporaryobservers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural societyas feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVendraws on untapped archival materials to show that villagers and localofficials capably integrated foreign ideas and models into a systemthat was at once traditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Herportrait of education reform both challenges received notions about themodernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, and addresses topicscentral to debates on modern China, including state making and theimpact of global ideas on local society.

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In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporaryobservers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural societyas feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVendraws on untapped archival materials to show that villagers and localofficials capably integrated foreign ideas and models into a systemthat was at once traditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Herportrait of education reform both challenges received notions about themodernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, and addresses topicscentral to debates on modern China, including state making and theimpact of global ideas on local society.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774821779
• ISBN 13: 9780774821773
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
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