@article{839188,
      recid = {839188},
      author = {Si, Hong-chang,},
      title = {A School in Ren Village : a Historical-Ethnographical  Study of China's Educational Changes /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {"By adopting oral history and fieldwork methods and  exploring historical data, this book chronologically  depicts the development of the schools and education in a  village in North China over a century. The book reveals how  education and school life in the rural village are being  impacted not only by its own history and traditions, but  also by external powers; more specifically, the development  of rural schools is influenced by the tensions between  Chinese and Western culture, between history and reality,  between countryside and cities, and between national and  local powers. In essence, villagers’ educational experience  is actually a battlefield for school education and local  tradition – the children’s lives are dominated by school  education, leaving local traditions few opportunities to  exert an influence. The study also discusses how school  education and local traditions have influenced villagers’  social mobility, a topic that has rarely been studied in  previous literature. In summary, rural schools have been  developing within an interactive network composed of  various actors. With the fading of national power since the  1980s, local rural actors have enjoyed a much more liberal  social and political space and thus now play a more active  role in rural education.Presenting a microcosm that  reflects the historical development of rural education in  China, the book is a valuable resource for researchers in  the field of in rural education, educational history, and  educational anthropology, as well as for readers interested  in rural education in China."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/839188},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7225-3},
}