Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China(English, Paperback, Pepper Suzanne)

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Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China(English, Paperback, Pepper Suzanne) is written by Pepper Suzanne and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521778603 (ISBN 10) and 9780521778602 (ISBN 13).

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.