Reform the People: Changing Attitudes Towards Popular Education in Early Twentieth-Century China

By Paul J. Bailey

Reform the People is an intellectual history of the earlyyears of popular education in China and an account of how the new ideaswere put into practice. Paul Bailey draws on a wide variety of sources-- in particular contemporary Chinese educational journals notavailable in the West -- and describes how the educators promotedliteracy by establishing day-schools, vocational schools, and publiclibraries and encouraged a hard-working, disciplined andpublic-spirited citizenry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774803835
• ISBN13: 9780774803830
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher