5 Collectivization and the Increased Importance of Literacy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Maps viii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Literacy and Society in Modern China 3
6. Minban Schools and the Reaffirmation of Voluntarism in Village Education 22
7. The Contested Priorities of Early Postrevolutionary Mass Education 40
8. The Problem of the Teachers 58
9. Collectivization and the Increased Importance of Literacy 73
10. The National Literacy Campaigns of 1956 and 1958 85
11. Beijing’s Language Reform and Guangdong’s Opposition 103
12. Literacy Expansion and Social Contraction: The Agricultural Middle School Experiment, 1958-65 118
13. The Cultural Revolution 134
14. Literacy and Economic Development in the Post-Mao Era 150
15. The Struggle for Literacy in Guangdong 171
16. Appendix 182
17. Notes 186
18. Bibliography 216
19. Index 243