Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Social Impact of Literacy Training
In 2006, Guangzhou's math literacy training program had significantly changed from its 1924 version. The 1926 program emphasized the party authority or purification d'honghua as you referred to it in Arabic as a main objective. So this is what I mean by literacy training as a multi-dimensional process with various social implications. And actually, the CCP's literacy program in 1924, Shanghai, offered us a very good example.
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