This book is a social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China from 1949 until 1994. It aims to show how China`s revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education and schools they were offered. Rather than focusing narrowly on educational issues alone, Peterson examines the larger significance of P.R.C. literacy efforts by situating the literacy movement within the broad context of major themes and issues in the social and political history of post-1949 China. Following the recent trend toward regional and local history, this book focuses on the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically awkward southeastern coastal province of Guangdong. As well, Peterson conducted interviews with local officials and teachers in several Guangdong counties in 1988 and 1989.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 302.2/244/09512709045
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- a-cc-kn
- ISBN
- 0774806117 9780774854535
- LCCN
- LC157.C5
- LCCN Item number
- P47 1997eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (250 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00326721 (OCoLC)144085529 (CaOOCEL)404342
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Tables and Maps 9
- Acknowledgments 10
- 1 Introduction: Literacy and Society in Modern China 16
- 2 Minban Schools and the Reaffirmation of Voluntarism in Village Education 35
- 3 The Contested Priorities of Early Postrevolutionary Mass Education 53
- 4 The Problem of the Teachers 71
- 5 Collectivization and the Increased Importance of Literacy 86
- 6 The National Literacy Campaigns of 1956 and 1958 98
- 7 Beijing's Language Reform and Guangdong's Opposition 116
- 8 Literacy Expansion and Social Contraction: The Agricultural Middle School Experiment, 1958-65 131
- 9 The Cultural Revolution 147
- 10 Literacy and Economic Development in the Post-Mao Era 163
- 11 The Struggle for Literacy in Guangdong 184
- Appendix: Educational Levels in Guangdong by District, City, and County, 1982 195
- Notes 199
- Bibliography 229
- Index 256
- A 256
- B 256
- C 256
- D 257
- E 257
- F 257
- G 258
- H 258
- I 258
- J 259
- K 259
- L 259
- M 260
- N 260
- O 261
- P 261
- Q 261
- R 261
- S 261
- T 262
- U 262
- V 262
- W 262
- X 263
- Y 263
- Z 263
