Gender and Education in China

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ID19907582
AuthorsPaul J Bailey (0000-0002-0857-2041), Paul Bailey (0000-0002-4650-9668, corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-02-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGENDER AND EDUCATION IN CHINA: GENDER DISCOURSES AND WOMEN'S SCHOOLING IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY. (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203964996
OpenAlexW1505654201
ISBN9780203964996
Open LibraryOL33738571M
LanguageEN
Citations received17

Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the Qing dynasty as a means of strengthening the foundations of dynastic rule and reinvigorating China's economy and society to ward off the threat of foreign imperialism. A significant feature of educational change during this period was the emergence of official and non-official schools for girls. Using primary evidence such as official documents, newspapers and journals, Paul Bailey analyzes the different rationales for women's education provided by officials, educators and reformers, and charts the course and practice of women's education describing how young women responded to the educational opportunities made available to them. Demonstrating how the representation of women and assumptions concerning their role in the household, society and polity underpinned subsequent gender discourses throughout the rest of the century, Gender and Education in China will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, gender studies, women's studies as well as an interest in the history of education

Archaeology · China · Geography · Political science · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · china · Education · Educational change · History · Women

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