TY - BOOK ID - 85469923 TI - Educating China : knowledge, society, and textbooks in a modernizing world, 1902-1937 PY - 2015 SN - 1316413012 1316413217 131641339X 1316414299 1316335909 1316413578 1107115477 1107535751 1316411370 9781316414118 1316414116 9781316414293 9781316335901 9781316413937 1316413934 9781316413579 9781316413395 9781107115477 9781107535756 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Textbooks KW - Education, Elementary KW - History KW - China KW - School-books KW - Schoolbooks KW - Text-books KW - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc. KW - Children KW - Elementary education KW - Primary education (Great Britain) KW - School children KW - Education KW - Education (Elementary) KW - 1900 - 1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469923 AB - 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. ER -