GENDER AND EDUCATION IN CHINA: GENDER DISCOURSES AND WOMEN'S SCHOOLING IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

"Gender and Education in China offers the first in-depth study of the discourse and practice education for girls in China, from its beginnings in the 1890s to the early 1920s. Educational change was an integral aspect of early twentieth-century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the Qing dynasty as a means of reinvigorating China's economy and society, and this was evident with the emergence of official and non-official schools for girls." "Using primary evidence such as government documents, newspapers, journals and school readers, Paul Bailey analyses the different rationales for women's education provided by officials, educators and reformers, and charts the course and practice of this education in early twentieth-century China."--BOOK JACKET.