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In this book the authors offer their unique perspectives on the
important roles Chinese students and intellectuals played in the
shaping of the twentieth-century China. Their answers to these
pivotal questions explore new nationalistic spirit, modern
world-views, and willingness of self-sacrifice, which had
attributed to the spontaneous actions of the students as a "New
Culture" emerged during the May Fourth Movement. These articles
show how China nurtured these spontaneous student movements, even
though the Nationalist Party in the Republic of China and the
Communist Party in the People's Republic had exerted tight control
over schools. Both governments established organizations as well as
operations among students that effectively turned some of the
student movements into a political instrument by the parties for
their own agenda.
Eating Grass, Drinking Wine is a gripping memoir of the life of one
woman and her family, which began in China under Mao Zedong in the
1950's. Surviving hardships and tribulations, she survived and made
it to the United States where her life transformed for the better.
This book is filled with powerful reflections of a China of the not
too distant past. Survival was not necessarily a given in those
very challenging years. Many people the author knew including
relatives either died or disappeared in mass campaigns Mao
launched, such as the Anti-Rightist Movement, the Great Leap
Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. It sheds light on a world
much different than that of the West, told through the eyes of
someone who lived it. This book also demonstrates the author's
passion for and gratitude to her adopted homeland and the people
she's met.
How 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."
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