附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-587) and index.
1. Educational development and the Chinese experience -- 2. Development dilemmas in the republican era: the League of Nations report -- 3. The inheritance -- 4. The modern school system -- 5. The critical backlash -- 6. Early communist alternatives: Jiangxi and Yan'an -- 7. Introducing the Soviet Union -- 8. The Soviet model for Chinese higher education -- 9. Sino-Soviet regularization and school system reform -- 10. Blooming, contending, and criticizing the Soviet model -- 11. On Stalin, Khrushchev, and the origins of cultural revolution -- 12. The great leap in education -- 13. A system divided: walking on two legs into the 1960s -- 14. Education reform as the catalyst for cultural revolution and class struggle: the 1966-1968 mobilization phase -- 15. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the professional educator's perspective -- 16. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the critical ideals triumphant at last.
摘要:In 1976, China's 'education revolution' was being hailed by foreign observers as an inspiration for all low-income countries. By 1980, the Chinese themselves had disavowed the experience, declaring it devoid of even a single redeeming virtue. This is the first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education, and to provide a detailed study of what occurred in the countryside under the radical Maoist education experiments during the Cultural Revolution. The study of both pre- and post-1949 China provided the crucial historical perspective to distinguish continuities from innovations. Rather than the epitome of good or evil, China's educational experiences of the 1970s instead emerged as the most tumultuous episode in a long and contentious struggle to adapt Western ways for use in a non-Western society.
