The Power of Words : Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95.

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Literacy and Society in Modern China -- 2 Minban Schools and the Reaffirmation of Voluntarism in Village Education -- 3 The Contested Priorities of Early Postrevolutionary Mass Education -- 4 The Problem of the Teachers -- 5 Collectivization and the Increased Importance of Literacy -- 6 The National Literacy Campaigns of 1956 and 1958 -- 7 Beijing's Language Reform and Guangdong's Opposition -- 8 Literacy Expansion and Social Contraction: The Agricultural Middle School Experiment, 1958-65 -- 9 The Cultural Revolution -- 10 Literacy and Economic Development in the Post-Mao Era -- 11 The Struggle for Literacy in Guangdong -- Appendix: Educational Levels in Guangdong by District, City, and County, 1982 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.

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