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A School in Every Village : Educational Reform in a Northeast China County, 1904-31 /

In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide school system to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural society as feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVen draws on untapped arc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: VanderVen, Elizabeth, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The setting : Northeast China, Fengtian Province, and Haicheng County
  • Educational transformation : abolishing and reforming the Sishu
  • Administering the new educational system : educational promotion bureaus
  • Funding the new community schools
  • Establishing girls' schools in Haicheng County
  • Old and new in the village community schools
  • Conclusion.