{"product_id":"a-school-in-every-village-9780774821766","title":"A School in Every Village","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta name=\"generator\" content=\"HTML\" tidy see www.w3.org\u003e\u003ctitle\u003e\u003c\/title\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem as part of a series of institutional reforms to shore up itspower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA School in Every Village\u003c\/i\u003e recounts how villagersand local state officials in Haicheng County enacted orders toestablish rural primary schools from 1904 to 1931. Although theCommunists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship haveall depicted rural society as feudal and backward and the educationalreforms of the early twentieth century a failure, Elizabeth VanderVendraws on untapped archival materials to reveal that villagers capablyintegrated foreign ideas and models into a system that was at oncetraditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Her portrait of educationreform not only challenges received notions about themodernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, it also address\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1   The Setting: Northeast China, Fengtian Province, andHaicheng County\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2   Educational Transformation: Abolishing and Reformingthe Sishu\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3   Administering the New Educational System: EducationalPromotion Bureaus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4   Funding the New Community Schools\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5   Establishing Girls’ Schools in HaichengCounty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6   Old and New in the Village Community Schools\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary of Chinese Terms and Place Names\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404924952919,"sku":"9780774821766","price":70.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774821766.jpg?v=1730488071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-school-in-every-village-9780774821766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}