Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
Book review by Thomas D. Curran.
Zhou, Huimei. 近代民众教育馆 = A Study of Modern Mass Education Bureaus. Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 2012. ISBN 9787303137077 (pbk.)
Prof. Zhou’s book is a general history of the Mass Education Movement that the Guomindang government conducted in the 1920s and 1930s. Topics covered include the movement’s ideological objectives, its organizational characteristics, it activities, and its reception by and impact on local communities. The work is carefully balanced between exposition and analysis, and it is supported generously by evidence drawn from a wide range of primary sources. Those sources include government publications, local gazetteers, books, newspapers and general audience magazines, and the specialized publications of a variety of educational and mass education organizations.
DOI
10.3868/s110-002-013-0029-5
Recommended Citation
Curran, Thomas D. "A Study of Modern Mass Education Bureaus" (Book Review). Frontiers of Education in China 8.3 (2013): 478–489.
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