RADICALISM AND EDUCATION REFORM IN 20TH-CENTURY CHINA by Suzanne Pepper ( 9780521778602 )

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Title:

RADICALISM AND EDUCATION REFORM IN 20TH-CENTURY CHINA
THE SEARCH FOR AN IDEAL DEVELOPMENT MODEL

By:

Suzanne Pepper

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521778603

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9780521778602

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 July, 2000

Pages:

626

Description:

The first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education.

Synopsis:

In 1976, China's 'education revolution' was being hailed by foreign observers as an inspiration for all low-income countries. By 1980, the Chinese themselves had disavowed the experience, declaring it devoid of even a single redeeming virtue. This is the first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education, and to provide a detailed study of what occurred in the countryside under the radical Maoist education experiments during the Cultural Revolution. The study of both pre- and post-1949 China provided the crucial historical perspective to distinguish continuities from innovations. Rather than the epitome of good or evil, China's educational experiences of the 1970s instead emerged as the most tumultuous episode in a long and contentious struggle to adapt Western ways for use in a non-Western society.

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Cambridge University Press

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