Peter Zarrow: 3 books
Educating China
Knowledge, Society and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In this major study, Peter Zarrow examines how textbooks published for the Chinese school system played a major role in shaping new social, cultural, and political trends, the ways in which schools conveyed traditional and 'new style' knowledge and how they sought to socialize students in a rapidly...
by Peter Zarrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite...
After Empire
The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy...