Educating China : knowledge, society, and textbooks in a modernizing world, 1902-1937 /
In this major study, Peter Zarrow examines how textbooks published for the Chinese school system played a major role in shaping new social, cultural and political trends, the ways in which schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and how they sought to socialize students in a...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Summary: | In this major study, Peter Zarrow examines how textbooks published for the Chinese school system played a major role in shaping new social, cultural and political trends, the ways in which schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and how they sought to socialize students in a rapidly changing society in the first decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on language, morality and civics, history and geography, Zarrow shows that textbooks were quick to reflect the changing views of Chinese elites during this period. Officials and educators wanted children to understand the physical and human worlds, including the evolution of society, the institutions of the economy, and the foundations of the nation-state. Through textbooks, Chinese elites sought ways to link these abstractions to the concrete lives of children, conveying a variety of interpretations of enlightenment, citizenship and nationalism that would shape a generation as modern citizens of a new China. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107115477 1107115477 9781107535756 1107535751 |