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Author Peterson, Glen

Title Power of Words : Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-1995
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Tables and Maps""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction: Literacy and Society in Modern China""; ""2 Minban Schools and the Reaffirmation of Voluntarism in Village Education""; ""3 The Contested Priorities of Early Postrevolutionary Mass Education""; ""4 The Problem of the Teachers""; ""5 Collectivization and the Increased Importance of Literacy""; ""6 The National Literacy Campaigns of 1956 and 1958""; ""7 Beijing's Language Reform and Guangdong's Opposition""; ""8 Literacy Expansion and Social Contraction: The Agricultural Middle School Experiment, 1958-65""
""9 The Cultural Revolution""""10 Literacy and Economic Development in the Post-Mao Era""; ""11 The Struggle for Literacy in Guangdong""; ""Appendix: Educational Levels in Guangdong by District, City, and County, 1982""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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Subject Literacy -- China -- Guangdong Sheng -- History
Literacy -- Government policy -- China -- History
Literacy
Literacy -- Government policy
China
China -- Guangdong Sheng
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774854535
0774854537