Education and Democracy in China - To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901-1937

In this book, Ying Zhou argues that educational reform filled a critical role in bridging the precarious gap between democratic ideals and political realities in late Qing and Republican China, where institutional change in education and the cultivation of a qualified citizenry were two sides of the same coin in the development of democratic education.

Through a multi-level analysis of the (re)arrangements of national education and teachings of citizenship, Zhou unravels the complex political and educational nexus in China between 1901-1937, where the hope of education was to bring both political modernity and social progress.

About the author

Ying Zhou, Ph.D. (2021), University of Groningen, is an assistant professor at Xiamen University. Her current research project is concerned with pragmatism and progressive education in China and Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Zhou Ying
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2023
• EAN: 9789004687875
• ISBN: 978-90-04-68787-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 622 g
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern Chi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education