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"The book examines the Young Women's Christian Association in Beijing and analyzes the role of Christian women in modernization efforts in Republican China. The author argues that Christian women pioneered modern social service in the country"--.
"The book examines the Young Women's Christian Association in Beijing and analyzes the role of Christian women in modernization efforts in Republican China. The author argues that Christian women pioneered modern social service in the country"--
Mapping Modern Beijing investigates five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory-by au…
Beijing Institute for the Learning Society (BILS) was inaugurated in October 2011 through the joint efforts of Beijing Leading Group Office for Construction of Learning City and Beijing Normal University. The main focus of BILS lies within the education discipline. The Institute…
China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university students in China who grew up under the One Child Policy and now attend the nation's most presti…
China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those 'lucky' few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university students in China who grew up under the One Child Policy and now attend the nation's most presti…
"China's One Child Policy and its rigorous national focus on educational testing are well known. But what happens to those "lucky" few at the very top of the pyramid: elite university students in China who grew up under the One Child Policy and now attend the nation's most prest…
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's 'floating population, ' have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants di…
