| Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902-1937 Contributor(s): Zarrow, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107535751 ISBN-13: 9781107535756 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - Education | History - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 950 |
| LCCN: 2015509077 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.88 lbs) 294 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zarrow, Peter: - Peter Zarrow is a professor in the Department of History, University of Connecticut, where he focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of modern China, and an adjunct research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. His 2012 work, After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885�924, won the First Scholarly Monograph Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica. He has been a visiting scholar at the British Academy, L'�cole des Hautes �tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and served as Hu Shi Memorial Chair Professor, Academia Sinica in 2013. |