Red Genesis - Liyan Liu

Red Genesis

The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903-1921

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Buch | Softcover
267 Seiten
2013
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-4504-5 (ISBN)
31,80 inkl. MwSt
Looks at the role of the Hunan First Normal School in fostering a generation of founders and key figures in the Chinese Communist Party.
Winner of the 2013 Best Publication Award for Original Scholarship presented by the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States

How did an obscure provincial teachers college produce graduates who would go on to become founders and ideologues of the Chinese Communist Party? Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Xiao Zisheng, and others attended the Hunan First Normal School. Focusing on their alma mater, this work explores the critical but overlooked role modern schools played in sowing the seeds of revolution in the minds of students seeking modern education in the 1910s. The Hunan First Normal School was one of many reformed schools established in China in the early twentieth century in response to the urgent need to modernize the nation. Its history is a tapestry woven of traditional Chinese and modern Western threads. Chinese tradition figured significantly in the character of the school, yet Western ideas and contemporary social, political, and intellectual circumstances strongly shaped its policies and practices. Examining the background, curriculum, and the reforms of the school, as well as its teachers and radical students, Liyan Liu argues that China's modern schools provided a venue that nurtured and spread new ideas, including Communist revolution.

Liyan Liu is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown College.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Exceptional Normal and the Paradox of Hunan

1. Reform in Hunan, 1895-1900

2. From Confucian Academy to Modern School

3. The Milieu of First Normal, 1912-1919

4. Teaching the New Culture: First Normal’s Faculty

5. Sage in Residence: Yang Changji

6. Provincial Scholars and Young Radicals

7. Education of a Provincial Radical: Cai Hesen

Conclusion

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.7.2013
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 25
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 381 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 1-4384-4504-0 / 1438445040
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-4504-5 / 9781438445045
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