Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China

• 1. Educational developments and the Chinese experience; Part I. Origins of Radical Education Reform: 2. Development dilemmas in the Republican era; 3. The inheritance; 4. The modern school system; 5. The critical backlash; 6. Early communist alternatives; Part II. Learning from the Soviet Union: 7. Introducing the Soviet Union; 8. The Soviet model for Chinese higher education; 9. Sino-Soviet regularization and school system reform; 10. Blooming, contending, and criticizing the Soviet model; Part III. Cultural Revolution and Radical Education Reform: 11. The origins of cultural revolution; 12. The great leap in education; 13. A system divided: walking on two legs into the 1960s; 14. Education reform as the catalyst for class struggle; 15. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the professional educator's perspective; 16. Education reform as the culmination of class struggle: the critical ideals triumphant at last; 17. The Cultural Revolution negated; 18. The mixed triumph of regularity; 19. Chinese radicalism and education development.

"This volume constitutes a breathtaking achievement, in terms of the wide range of sources drawn upon and the remarkable grasp Pepper has of the whole sweep of modern Chinese educational history." The China Quarterly