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The power of words : literacy and revolution in South China, 1949-95

This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.
eBook, English, 1997
UBC Press, Vancouver [B.C.], 1997
History
1 online resource (250 pages) : maps.
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1. Introduction: Literacy and Society in South China2. Minban Schools and the Reaffirmation of Voluntarism in VillageEducation3. The Contested Priorities of Early Post-Revolutionary MassEducation4. The Problem of the Teachers5. Collectivization and the Increased Importance of Literacy6. The National Literacy Campaigns of 1956 and 19587. Beijing's Language Reform and Guangdong's Opposition8. Literacy Expansion and Social Contraction: The AgriculturalMiddle School Experiment 1958-659. The Cultural Revolution10. Literacy and Economic Development in the Post-Mao Era11. The Struggle for Literacy in Guagndong Appendix: EducationalLevels in Guagndong by District, City, and County 1982 BibliographyNotesIndex
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010