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Keeping the Nation's House : Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Chinese Studies SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774819992
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Keeping the Nation's HouseDDC classification:
  • 640/.9510904
LOC classification:
  • TX101 -- .S36 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48 -- 2 Gendered Responsibilities: Debates over Female Education in the Republican Period -- 3 Domestic Discipline: The Development of Home Economics Curricula -- 4 A Discipline of Their Own: Home Economists in Institutions of Higher Learning -- 5 Experimenting with the Family: Family Education Experimental Zones in the 1940s -- 6 Cleaning House: The Last Decade of a Gendered Discipline -- 7 The Post-1949 Politics of Home Economics: Stories of Professional Evolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms, Institutions, and Names -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Explores the vision and aspirations of elite Chinese women - home economists - who believed that the birth of modern China should begin in the home.
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Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48 -- 2 Gendered Responsibilities: Debates over Female Education in the Republican Period -- 3 Domestic Discipline: The Development of Home Economics Curricula -- 4 A Discipline of Their Own: Home Economists in Institutions of Higher Learning -- 5 Experimenting with the Family: Family Education Experimental Zones in the 1940s -- 6 Cleaning House: The Last Decade of a Gendered Discipline -- 7 The Post-1949 Politics of Home Economics: Stories of Professional Evolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms, Institutions, and Names -- Bibliography -- Index.

Explores the vision and aspirations of elite Chinese women - home economists - who believed that the birth of modern China should begin in the home.

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