Title Radicalism and education reform in 20th-century China : the search for an ideal development model / Suzanne Pepper

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 610 pages) Contents 1. Educational development and the Chinese experience -- 2. Development dilemmas in the republican era: the League of Nations report -- 3. The inheritance -- 4. The modern school system -- 5. The critical backlash -- 6. Early communist alternatives: Jiangxi and Yan'an -- 7. Introducing the Soviet Union -- 8. The Soviet model for Chinese higher education -- 9. Sino-Soviet regularization and school system reform -- 10. Blooming, contending, and criticizing the Soviet model -- 11. On Stalin, Khrushchev, and the origins of cultural revolution -- 12. The great leap in education -- 13. A system divided: walking on two legs into the 1960s -- 14. Education reform as the catalyst for cultural revolution and class struggle: the 1966-1968 mobilization phase -- 15. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the professional educator's perspective -- 16. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the critical ideals triumphant at last Summary In 1976, China's 'education revolution' was being hailed by foreign observers as an inspiration for all low-income countries. By 1980, the Chinese themselves had disavowed the experience, declaring it devoid of even a single redeeming virtue. This is the first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education, and to provide a detailed study of what occurred in the countryside under the radical Maoist education experiments during the Cultural Revolution. The study of both pre- and post-1949 China provided the crucial historical perspective to distinguish continuities from innovations. Rather than the epitome of good or evil, China's educational experiences of the 1970s instead emerged as the most tumultuous episode in a long and contentious struggle to adapt Western ways for use in a non-Western society Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-587) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Education -- China -- History -- 20th century Educational change -- China -- History -- 20th century Communism and education -- China -- History -- 20th century School management and organization -- China -- History -- 20th century EDUCATION -- History. EDUCATION -- Comparative. Communism and education Education Educational change School management and organization Onderwijsvernieuwing. SUBJECT China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024126 Subject China China. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511002262 9780511002267 0511584725 9780511584725

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