Di Luo, "Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945" (Brill, 2022)
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The CCP's Narrative of Literacy
The only path to change illiterate persons' social position was to obtain food literacy. However, this goal was not able to be obtained through the short-term training program provided by the state. In comparison, in contrast, if we look at the narrative of frameworks used by the CCP during the early 1930s, it presented illiteracy as a result of class exploitation. This perspective gave power to the action of acquiring literacy. So no matter how occasionally those actions would be, those actions actually created a sense of empowerment to the less educated.
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