Keeping the Nation's House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China (Contemporary Chinese Studies Series) - Softcover

Schneider, Helen M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774819987 ISBN 13: 9780774819985

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2012

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Críticas:

Schneider's book is a rigorous and compelling new interpretation of the Nationalist era in Chinese history. Although studies of the era have traditionally centred on militarism and high politics, Schneider shows how the construction of home life was crucial to the formation of a new sense of national identity. Her analysis of home economics is highly suggestive, showing how new discourses of social science and modernity intersected with the most intimate and private spaces in Chinese family life. - Rana Mitter, author of A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World Schneider's book makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Nationalist period, particularly the educational reform and social development of the era. She has mined a huge amount of material rarely used before, such as popular women's magazines and journals; unearthed archival documents in Nanjing, Beijing, Chongqing, and elsewhere; and put it all to excellent use. She skillfully pursues the stories of some of these women into the post-1949 period, showing how they contributed to the "new China." - Ruth Hayhoe, editor of Education, Culture and Identity in 20th Century China

Reseña del editor:

This revisionist account of modern China will be of interest tostudents and scholars of contemporary China, gender history, and thehistory of education.

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• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0774819987
• ISBN 13: 9780774819985
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336