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Author VanderVen, Elizabeth, 1966-

Title A school in every village : educational reform in a Northeast China county, 1904-31 / Elizabeth R. VanderVen
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523
Contemporary Chinese studies.
Contents The setting : Northeast China, Fengtian Province, and Haicheng County -- Educational transformation : abolishing and reforming the Sishu -- Administering the new educational system : educational promotion bureaus -- Funding the new community schools -- Establishing girls' schools in Haicheng County -- Old and new in the village community schools -- Conclusion
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Education -- China -- Haicheng Xian (Liaoning Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
Educational change -- China -- Haicheng Xian (Liaoning Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
School management and organization -- China -- Haicheng Xian (Liaoning Sheng) -- History -- 20th century
Education and state -- China -- History -- 20th century
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
EDUCATION -- History.
Education
Education and state
Educational change
School management and organization
China
China -- Haicheng Shi
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774821780
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