Educating China: Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937 - Couverture rigide

Zarrow, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107115477 ISBN 13 : 9781107115477

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'What textbooks say today generates heated debate from Tokyo to Texas. Zarrow's landmark study of textbooks in late imperial and early Republican China shows how and why they mattered a century ago for reimagining the people, the culture, the past and the future of China - an indispensable book for educators and historians of modern China.' John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University of Technology

'Peter Zarrow's groundbreaking study of Chinese textbooks critically analyzes their presentation of knowledge to students in late Qing and Republican China. Zarrow thoughtfully situates the texts in broad social and cultural currents, demonstrating how they reflected and influenced ongoing political and intellectual dynamics. This book is necessary reading for all students of modern Chinese history.' Robert J. Culp, Bard College

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107115477
• ISBN 13: 9781107115477
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 293