Red genesis : the Hunan Normal School and the creation of Chinese communism, 1903-1921 / Liyan Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Liyan, 1958 April 17-

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunan Sheng di yi shi fan xue xiao--History.

Hunan Sheng di yi shi fan xue xiao.

Communism--China--History.

Communism.

Educational change--China--History--20th century.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Hunan Normal School and the creation of Chinese communism, 1903-1921

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2013 Best Publication Award for Original Scholarship presented by the Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United StatesHow 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.

Contents:

Introduction: the exceptional normal and the paradox of hunan

Reform in Hunan, 1895-1900

From Confucian academy to modern school

The milieu of first Normal, 1912-1919

Teaching the new culture: first Normal's faculty

Sage in residence: Yang Changji

Provincial scholars and young radicals

Education of a provincial radical: Cai Hesen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438445052

1438445059

OCLC:

818414020