A School in Every Village
Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774821766
- Publish Date
- Feb 2012
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774821773
- Publish Date
- Feb 2013
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774821780
- Publish Date
- Feb 2012
- List Price
- $34.95
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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 and late imperial China. She was on the faculty of the History Department at Rutgers University, Camden.