Education and Democracy in China

To Confine the Surging Tide from the Outside World, 1901–1937

Zhou Ying (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68787-5 (ISBN)

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This book argues that educational reform filled a critical role in strengthening China’s embryonic democracy. It offers a multi-level analysis of the parallel, but at the same time interconnected, developments of the educational system and civic knowledge in China between 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.

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.

Acknowledgements

Note on Romanisation

List of Figures and Tables

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Intertwining Themes of Education: Institutional Change and Enlightenment of the People

2 Aims and Objectives of the Book

3 Methodological Outline

4 Structure of the Book

1 A Seismic Shift in Education in the Last Decade of the Empire, 1901–1911

1 The Gestation of Fundamental Reform in Education

2 The 1904 Educational System: A Trade-off as well as a Breakthrough

3 The Constitutional Reform and its Implication for Education, 1905–1911

4 Conclusion

2 New Education and Republican Politics, 1912–1923

1 Educational Rearrangement and the Early Republican Politics, 1912–1916

2 Whose Victory? the “New System” and Disputes on Education for Democracy, 1916–1922

3 Actualising the Democratic Ideal: The 1923 Curricula

4 Conclusion

3 Education, Democracy, and Nationalism in the Republic, 1923–1937

1 Reflections on and Criticisms of New Education

2 Education in the Nanjing Decade

3 Education for Nationalist Democracy

4 Conclusion

4 Self-cultivation: Moral Education under Challenge, 1904–1923

1 Selection of Textbook Sources

2 Self-Cultivation as a School Subject

3 Self-Cultivation during 1904–1915: Teaching Morality, Democracy, and Citizenship

4 Self-cultivation during 1915–1923: Failing to Offer an Arena for Democratic Education

5 Conclusion

5 Citizenship: Education for Diverse Models of Democracy, 1923–1936

1 Selection of textbook sources

2 Citizenship as a School Subject

3 Education for Citizenship in an Era of Intellectual Pluralism, 1923–1927

4 Party education at the beginning of political tutelage, 1928–1932

5 Citizenship Education in the Transition to Constitutional Rule, 1932–1936

6 Conclusion

6 Conclusion: Education in a Society that Persistently Pursues Democracy

1 Education within a Context of Constant Changes

2 Educational and Socio-Political Reforms

3 Democratic Ideals and the Actualisation of Education for Democracy

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Ideas, History, and Modern China ; 31
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	656 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-68787-4 / 9004687874
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68787-5 / 9789004687875
Zustand	Neuware