TY - BOOK AU - Zarrow,Peter Gue TI - Educating China: knowledge, society and textbooks in a modernizing world, 1902-1937 SN - 9781316414118 AV - LA1131.81 .Z2 2015eb U1 - 950 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Textbooks KW - China KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Education, Elementary KW - Enseignement primaire KW - Chine KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - HISTORY KW - Asia KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Schulbuch KW - gnd KW - Wissensvermittlung KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; 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 N2 - "In this major study, Peter Zarrow examines how textbooks published for the Chinese school system played a major role in shaping new social, cultural, and political trends, the ways in which schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and how they sought to socialize students in a rapidly changing society in the first decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on language, morality and civics, history, and geography, Zarrow shows that textbooks were quick to reflect the changing views of Chinese elites during this period. Officials and educators wanted children to understand the physical and human worlds, including the evolution of society, the institutions of the economy, and the foundations of the nation-state. Through textbooks, Chinese elites sought ways to link these abstractions to the concrete lives of children, conveying a variety of interpretations of enlightenment, citizenship, and nationalism that would shape a generation as modern citizens of a new China"--Page 4 of cover UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1077358 ER -