Educating China - Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902-1937

A major study of how Chinese school textbooks shaped social, cultural, and political trends in the late imperial and Republican period.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The construction of the state school system; 2. Reading modern China; 3. Textbook morality, self-cultivation, and civics; 4. Good citizens; 5. The national subject in time; 6. A usable past; 7. The importance of space; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

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, 1885–1924, 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'École des Hautes Études 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.

Summary

An in-depth analysis of how Chinese school textbooks published between 1902 and 1937 shaped new social, cultural, and political trends. Peter Zarrow examines how Chinese schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and sought to socialize students in a rapidly changing society in the transformative first decades of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Zarrow, Peter (University of Connecticut) Zarrow, Peter G. Zarrow
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107115477
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11547-7
• No. of pages: 293
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; China, History of Ideas, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / China, History of Education, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)