Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.
Traditional education -- Training loyal subjects : the introduction of modern schools in late Qing -- For nation and progress : modern education takes off, 1911-1931 -- Creating a new society through education : the Rural Reconstruction Movement, 1931-1937 -- Back to the basics : schools under Japanese occupation and civil war, 1937-1948 -- Education in service of the new party-state, 1948-1957 -- Training revolutionary successors? : the radical era, 1957-1976 -- Education in the service of economic reforms : the post-Mao era.
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This book provides a detailed analysis of education reforms in twentieth-century rural China, and of how these reforms relate to larger processes of social, political, and economic transformation. Based on documents and life histories collected in Zouping, the book focuses on education as an indicator of the changing relations between state and rural society; as a crucial feature in local economic life; and as a decisive factor in individual careers and destinies.