{"product_id":"in-the-lap-of-tigers-9780847699377","title":"In the Lap of Tigers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFounded in the forested mountains of ChinaOs remote Jiangxi Province in 1958, the Communist Labor University, along with some 100 branch campuses, introduced uneducated farmers and peasants to basic agricultural science and farming techniques through an innovative work-study program until 1980. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, John Cleverley here explores the inner workings of this unique Chinese institution and the direct personal involvement in its affairs by the nationOs key communist leaders, including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and Deng Xiaoping.   The community would survive the dictates of political agriculture, famine and pestilence, and the Cultural Revolution, thus mirroring higher education''s own cycle of expansion, contraction, and division. Yet the university could not avoid the bitter factional politics and deadly power plays of the 1970s. Open to the charge that it was a utopian experiment, another of Mao''s great follies, its undoing was part of the larg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA well-written book. * The China Journal *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is engagingly written. * Labor History *\u003cbr\u003eThis book can help readers understand Chinese politics or education before 1980. * History of Education Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eSpecialists on Chinese education and on modern China more generally will welcome this volume for the new insights and understandings it contributes to the study of Chinese socialist development, and the role of higher education within that development. Comparative educators will find it fills important gaps in knowledge within the wider historical project of socialist higher eduction development. * Comparative Education *\u003cbr\u003eCleverley's treatment of the history of the Communist Labour University is detailed, effective and quite readable. * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003eCleverley's book is a model of educational history. With a deep and surefooted understanding of his subject he takes the reader lucidly and impartially through the permeations of power and ideology. -- Richard Davis, University of Tasmania * History Of Education Review *\u003cbr\u003eOffers an interesting glimpse into attempts to translate revolutionary ideology into meaningful, pragmatic, and mass-based educational actualization. As such, the Gongda story, as narrated in this volume, merits attention as a daring and even noble facet of twentieth-century Chinese societal transformation. * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 List of Photographs Chapter 2 Abbreviations and Terms Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Map Chapter 5 Introduction: Setting the Scene Part 6 I: ESTABLISHMENT\t Chapter 7 1  Great Expectations\t Chapter 8 2  The Founding\t Chapter 9 3  Branches of Gongda\t Chapter 10 4  A Dark Side Part 11 II: EDUCATIONAL WORK Chapter 12 5  Classroom and Farm\t Chapter 13 6  “Staffers, Laborers, and Researchers.”\t Part 14 III: ON POLITICS Chapter 15 7  Guidance from the Chairman\t Chapter 16 8  A Role for Ideology\t Chapter 17 9  On Political Movements\t Part 18 IV: STEPS BACK AND FORWARD Chapter 19 10  Famine and Fortitude\t Chapter 20 11  A Letter from Mao Zedong\t Chapter 21 12  Good Friends Rally\t Chapter 22 13  “The Golden Years\"\t Part 23 V: CYCLE OF REVOLUTION\t Chapter 24 14  Cultural Wars\t Chapter 25 15  An Open Door\t Chapter 26 16  Trial by Media\t Chapter 27 17  Attacked by Left and Right\t Part 28 VI: LIFE AND LEGEND\t Chapter 29 18  Decision Point\t Chapter 30 19  Life after Death\t Chapter 31 Afterword Chapter 32 Notes Chapter 33 Select Bibliography Chapter 34 Index Chapter 35 About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038827839831,"sku":"9780847699377","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780847699377.jpg?v=1750941586","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-lap-of-tigers-9780847699377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}