Beyond citizenship : literacy and personhood in everyday China, 1900-1945 / by Di Luo
- Bib ID:
- 8854796
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Luo, Di, author
- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- ©2022
- xviii, 282 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9789004524736 (Hardback) (acid-free paper)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9789004524743 (eBook)
- Series:
- China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 50. 1570-1344
- Summary:
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"Beyond Citizenship focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-state by examining the government provision of adult literacy training in early twentieth-century China. Based on untapped archives and diaries, Di Luo uncovers people's strategic use of literacy and illiteracy in social interactions and explores the impact of daily experiences on the expansion of state power. Highlighting interpersonal and intergroup relations, Beyond Citizenship suggests a new methodology of studying literacy which foregrounds the agentive role of historical actors and so moves away from a more traditional approach that treats literacy itself as the key factor enabling social change"--
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
- Also published electronically.
- Subject:
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- Literacy -- Government policy -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Social change -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Literacy programs -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Literacy -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Adult education and state -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Social change -- China -- 20th century
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2022
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