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Education, Culture, and Identity in Twentieth-Century China » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Education, Culture, and Identity in Twentieth-Century China by Glen Douglas Peterson

Authors: Glen Douglas Peterson (Editor), Yongling Lu (Editor), Ruth Emilie Scott Hayhoe
ISBN-13: 9780472111510, ISBN-10: 0472111515
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: May 2001
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Glen Douglas Peterson

Book Synopsis

A comprehensive collection on twentieth-century educational practices in China

Table of Contents

Introduction1
Pt. 1Sino-Foreign Interactions in Education23
Searching for Individuality: Educational Pursuits in China and Russia31
Japan's Involvement with Higher Education in Manchuria: Some Historical Lessons from an Imposed Educational Corporation54
Christian Mission Schools and Japan's To-A Dobun Shoin: Comparisons and Legacies82
Mission Schools and Modernity: The Anglo-Chinese College, Fuzhou109
British Protestant Educational Activities and the Nationalization of Chinese Education in the 1920s137
Nationalization and Internationalization: Two Turning Points in China's Education in the Twentieth Century161
Pt. 2State and Society in Chinese Education187
The Status of Confucianism in Modern Chinese Education, 1901-49: A Curricular Study193
Peasant Education and the Reconstruction of Village Society217
Learning in Lijiazhuang: Education, Skills, and Careers in Twentieth-Century Rural China238
University Autonomy in Twentieth-Century China265
The Resurgence of Private Education in Post-Mao China: Problems and Prospects297
Pt. 3Gender Representation and Identification315
Active Citizen or Efficient Housewife? The Debate over Women's Education in Early-Twentieth-Century China318
Forging a New Role for Women: Zhili First Women's National School and the Growth of Women's Education in China, 1901-21348
Historical Memory, Community Service, Hope: Reclaiming the Social Purposes of Education for the Shanghai McTyeire School for Girls375
Ethnic Minority Girls on Chinese School Benches: Gender Perspectives on Minority Education403
The Women's Studies Movement in China in the 1980s and 1990s430
Glossary451
Bibliography461
List of Contributors481
Index483

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