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Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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Beyond Citizenship focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-state by examining the government provision of adult literacy training in early twentieth-century China. Based on untapped archives and diaries, Di Luo uncovers people’s strategic use of literacy and illiteracy in social interactions and explores the impact of daily experiences on the expansion of state power. Highlighting interpersonal and intergroup relations, Beyond Citizenship suggests a new methodology of studying literacy which foregrounds the agentive role of historical actors and so moves away from a more traditional approach that treats literacy itself as the key factor enabling social change.
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Di Luo, Ph.D. (2015, The Ohio State University), is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama. Her research investigates the rise of the modern nation-state in twentieth-century China as ordinary people experienced it.
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eBook published on:
September 19, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9789004524743
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Main content:
282
eBook ISBN:
9789004524743
Keywords for this book
Modern China; Twentieth-century China; adult education; nationalism; state-building; education; literacy studies; identity politics; Chinese Communist Party; The Nationalist Party; Northwestern Shanxi Base Areas; Chongqing; Shanghai; language reform
Audience(s) for this book
University departments, libraries, and institutes; scholars and students interested in modern China, especially those who work on educational, political, social, or cultural history of the twentieth century, and literacy scholars in general.
