Description
Book SynopsisThis innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.
Trade Review"A major contribution to the study of teachers' schools in Republican China. Xiaoping Cong's work helps us understand why China's rural society and lasting feudal structure were transformed and dismantled during the Republican period and also what led to the success of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. - George Wei, author of Sino-American Economic Relations, 1944-49"
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 The Imperial School System and Education Reform in the Second Halfof the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Review
2 Education and Society in Transition: The Rise of Teachers’Schools, 1897-1911
3 Pursuing Modernization in Trying Times: Teachers’ Schoolsfrom 1912-22
4 Modernity and the Village: The Emergence of VillageTeachers’ Schools, 1922-30
5 Nationalizing the Local: Teachers’ Schools in RuralReconstruction, 1930-37
6 Transforming the Revolution: Social and Political Aspects ofTeachers’ Schools, 1930-37
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
