Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception by demonstrating how crucial the countryside was for reformers in China long before the success of the communist revolution.
In The Rural Modern, Merkel-Hess shows that Chinese reformers and intellectuals created an idea of modernity that was not simply about what was foreign and new, as in Shanghai and other cities, but instead captured the Chinese people’s desire for social and political change rooted in rural traditions and institutions. She traces efforts to remake village education, economics, and politics, analyzing how these efforts contributed to a new, inclusive vision of rural Chinese life. Merkel-Hess argues that as China sought to redefine itself, such rural reform efforts played a major role, and tensions that emerged between rural and urban ways deeply informed social relations, government policies, and subsequent efforts to create a modern nation during the communist period.
Kate Merkel-Hess is assistant professor of history and Asian studies at Penn State University.
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民国史的写法大都是写成一个失败的故事:2、30年代的带有平等、自治、精英/农民互相转化理想的乡村建设运动(晏阳初、陶行知、梁漱溟...)如何在之后的危机中(反共、抗日)逐渐精英化,整合进国民党党国的建设和动员。
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评分民国史的写法大都是写成一个失败的故事:2、30年代的带有平等、自治、精英/农民互相转化理想的乡村建设运动(晏阳初、陶行知、梁漱溟...)如何在之后的危机中(反共、抗日)逐渐精英化,整合进国民党党国的建设和动员。
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