Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
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The Differences Between Warming Down Literacy Programs and the CCP's
The first two chapters focus on the wartime period from 1937 to 1945 in Chongqing. In chapter four, you delve into the management of literacy programs during wartime and the social impacts of these programs. So that's what I see as the major differences in terms of the narratives and frameworks used by these two parties during the early 1930s. And basically, based on your just, you know, elaboration and the big idea reading, though they both believed in the importance of literacy in nation building, their conceptions of how exactly literacy could help build a more than nation state were very different from each other.
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